Couples Therapy in Managed Care: Facing the Crisis

by Barbara Jo Brothers

Provides social workers, psychologists, and counselors with an overview of the negative effects of the managed care industry on the quality of mental health care, highlighting paradoxes that occur with the mixing of business and service principles. Gives suggestions on how to cope within the managed care context while retaining integrity. Co-published simultaneously as Journal of Couples Therapy, vol. 8, nos. 3/4, 1999.

146 pages, Hardcover

First published December 2, 1999