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How To Really Talk To Your Therapist: Four Collaborative Steps written by Steven A. Frankel
People who go into therapy frequently report good experiences where the patient feels understood and well-supported by the therapist, who uses his or her therapeutic skills to facilitate a discovery and healing process. But what if your therapy frustrates you? What if your therapist is off base and you don’t seem to be making progress? What happens if you can’t communicate with your therapist? Here are several tips for getting more out of your therapy by learning how to REALLY communicate with your therapist.

The Case for Accountability in Clinical Practice written by Steven A. Frankel
We in the psychotherapy and counseling professions are often faulted for indiscriminately dispensing patient care, lacking data to defend the validity of our work. Presented in the case against us is that we rarely use much in the way of number-generating tests. My antidote is based on the principles of collaborative psychology and psychiatry, including a clinical evaluation, psychological or neuropsychological testing, a formal treatment plan, and written reports at regular intervals. The extra cost and time required for such an approach are more than justified by the built-in checks and balances, and the added likelihood of clinical accuracy.

Serious Problems in Psychotherapy Require Serious Medicine written by Steven A. Frankel
As a psychotherapy patient, do you wonder whether the work you and your therapist are doing will succeed and produce lasting results? Patients frequently remain in the dark about whether treatment is actually succeeding. The solution to this dilemma is a treatment considerably broader in scope than conventional psychological and psychiatric therapy. In conducting this innovative method of treatment, the therapist assumes the kind of clinical responsibility that is typical of a physician. He or she takes responsibility for addressing the full range of the patient's presenting and underlying problems, and coordinating all aspects of the patient’s treatment.

How to deal with Child Psychiatry written by Rachel Broune
All kids misbehave some times, but behavior disorders go beyond mischief and rebellion. With behavior disorders, your child or teen has a pattern of hostile, aggressive or disruptive behaviors for more than 6 months.

Stepping lightly over boxes of medical experience written by Jeffrey Junig
Is all learning beneficial? Can the mind make positive use of most of our life experiences? A corollary to ‘once learned, some things cannot be unlearned’ is that regarding personality, ‘we are what we eat’. Our experiences remain within us, and color everything that we see and do going forward.

RVUs- Whose Value Is It, Anyway? written by Jeffrey Junig
Payments for medical illnesses by insurers vary dramatically between mental health and other conditions. The differences in reimbursement are most dramatic when one compares mental health care to procedural specialties. The difference in pay schedules cannot be accounted for by differences in stress, time, risk, or years of training required by the specialty. Rather, the payment discrepancies are due to the low value placed on mental health services by society.

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