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Description

1. xi, 283 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. In this provocative and very persuasive book, professor and clinical psychologist Carol Shaw Austad demonstrates that numerous studies have indicated long-term therapy to be no more effective in its outcomes than short-term therapy. Austad argues that in an age when limited resources are attempting to provide universal care for millions of individuals and families who need and deserve treatment, a more accountable system of intermittent, short-term therapy is clearly more ethical and fair.
2. The book is filled with solid research, illustrative clinical examples, and interviews that demonstrate the effectiveness of good managed care. In addition, the author outlines a new model of behavioral health care in which the criteria and priorities for psychological services are driven by societal needs and resources. Is Long-Term Psychotherapy Unethical? makes a persuasive case for the cost-saving, practical, and goal-oriented use of short-term therapy and challenges the profession to provide behavioral health care that is widely available, responsible, and ethical. Therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and mental health clinicians will find this intriguing book a touchstone as our behavioral health care systems continue to evolve.

Subject

1. Brief psychotherapy > Moral and ethical aspects
2. Managed mental health care > Moral and ethical aspects
3. Psychotherapy > Social aspects
4. Managed care plans (Medical care)
5. Brief psychotherapy
6. Mental health services
7. Ethics, Medical
8. Managed Care Programs
9. Psychotherapy, Brief
10. Mental Health Services
11. Psychothérapie brève > Aspect moral
12. Soins intégrés de santé mentale > Aspect moral
13. Psychothérapie > Aspect social
14. Éthique médicale
15. Soins intégrés de santé
16. Psychothérapie brève
17. Services de santé mentale
18. Brief psychotherapy > Moral and ethical aspects
19. Managed mental health care > Moral and ethical aspects
20. Psychotherapie
21. Kurzpsychotherapie

Contents

1. Foreword / Nicholas A. Cummings -- 1. The Therapist's Dilemma: Transformation of the Mental Health Care System -- 2. Resistance to Change: Status Quo, Biases, and Self-Interest -- 3. Money Talks: Does Profit Influence Care? -- 4. Ethical Abuses in Managed and Unmanaged Care: Hearing from Both Sides -- 5. The Myth of Long-Term Psychotherapy: Research Ignored and Neglected -- 6. How Patients Really Use Psychotherapy: The Clinician's Illusion -- 7. Toward a Sociology of Psychotherapy -- 8. Individual or Societal Ethic? -- 9. Lessons from History -- 10. Stories of Successful Adaptation to Managed Care Practice -- 11. Is Long-Term Psychotherapy Unethical in an Era of Managed Care? -- About Carol Shaw Austad -- About Nicholas A. Cummings.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain