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Getting Started in Private Practice: The Complete Guide to Building Your Mental Health Practice (Getting Started)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8914068
EAN: 9780471426233
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0471426237
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: October 11, 2004
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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All the tips and tools you need to build a successful mental health practice from the ground up
Many mental health professionals currently working for group practices, hospitals, and private or government agencies have both the skills and the drive to become solo practitioners. But how and where do you begin?
Getting Started in Private Practice is a reliable reference that offers the comprehensive information and armchair motivation you need to establish and build your own practice from the ground up. User-friendly and full of helpful tips, this handy book provides you with tools and techniques for starting and maintaining a thriving private practice, including information on: - Discovering your ideal practice
- Creating a business plan
- Financing your start-up
- Setting fees
- Setting up shop and measuring results
- Minimizing risk
- Managing managed care
- Marketing your practice
- Generating referrals
- Utilizing additional print, Web, and organizational resources
From major concerns such as ethics and liability to day-to-day matters like selecting stationery and business cards, Getting Started in Private Practice puts the best solutions at your fingertips. Whether you're a recent graduate or a seasoned pro, this invaluable resource will help you minimize the uncertainty of establishing a solo practice while maximizing the rewards.
This comprehensive, "How To" book offers the tips and tools necessary to build a successful private mental health practice from the ground up. This "hands-on" guide provides sample business and marketing plans, as well as checklists, sidebars, and simple mathematical formulas for determining service rates, revenues, return on investment, and more.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not thrilled...
After reading the first 3 chapters of this book, I've closed it for now and am moving on to another book I purchased that I'm finding much more helpful. This book reads like a professor's lecture notes and handouts - choppy - then some parts are way too basic for anyone who's ever worked as a counselor. Some of the information is helpful if you can follow the unwritten connections, or if you need a list of questions or a checklist as guidance. I may come back to other chapters for such resources, ... Read More
Rating:  - Must have for new therapists
I bought three other guides to starting a private practice and this one outshines them all. Everything I needed and nothing I didn't. The information about setting fees was specific and very helpful, unlike many other books that give only a very general overview. Even the small things like business cards and stationary were discussed. Marketing ideas were great as well.
Rating: - An excellent primer that is concise and to the point
Unlike most books on starting a private practice, Getting Started in Private Practice, doesn't waste time with nonsensical fluff on whether one should be in private practice and other "touchy feely" irrelevancies. The authors presume you are reading the book because you have already decided private practice is for you and takes off from there.
The book is concise and straightforward with information on the financial and legal aspects of starting and running a private practice. Whereas ... Read More
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