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Author Austad, Carol Shaw, author

Title Is long-term psychotherapy unethical? : toward a social ethic in an era of managed care / Carol Shaw Austad ; foreword by Nicholas A. Cummings
Edition First edition
Published San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1996]
©1996

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Description xi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents 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
Summary 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. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Brief psychotherapy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Managed mental health care -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Psychotherapy -- Social aspects.
Author Cummings, Nicholas A., author of foreword
LC no. 95052113
ISBN 0787902187 (acidfree paper)