Managing Managed Care

Psychotherapy and Medication Management in the Modern Era

By: Robert Langs

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Hardcover | 19 February 2009

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156 Pages

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Managing Managed Care is the first comprehensive exploration of the many issues and challenges faced by both providers and patients who work under the auspices of managed care insurers. The distinctive conditions of managed care treatment are scrutinized in detail and their effects and optimal management are carefully presented. The book makes extensive use of the author's unique, in-depth understanding of the human mind and pays attention to both the consciously mediated effects of the conditions of managed care treatment and to the especially powerful, largely unappreciated effects that are mediated unconsciously. The result is a well grounded, extensive, practical guide to dealing effectively with the inevitable intrusions into the therapeutic relationship and with other common issues that are characteristic of managed care therapy. The recommendations proposed by the author can turn a failing treatment experience into one that brings symptom relief to the patient and satisfaction to the therapist. While the author is critical of many practices endorsed by managed care insurers and in use by their providers, he takes pains to propose basic improvements in these areas. In addition, the positive features of this treatment modality are given full consideration, including ways to enhance their favorable effects. The book uniquely provides critical insights for therapists and psychiatrists of all backgrounds and all levels of clinical experience in ways that will greatly enhance their work with managed care patients.

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Langs is eminently qualified to lead us on this journey of exploration into the unique influences that the boundary requirements of managed care treatment have on our patients, on us, and on what we each say and do in the course of our clinical interactions. -- William Goodheart M.D
Robert Langs has written a timely and important book which should be read by all therapists who work within a managed care or third party payer setting. -- Ronald D. Brown, MD, FRCPC, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill University

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