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Is Long-Term Psychotherapy Unethical?: Toward a Social Ethic in an Era of Managed Care
Carol Shaw Austad
ISBN: 978-0-7879-0218-6
Hardcover
283 pages
April 1996
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Table of Contents
 
Part One: The Current Transformation of Ethics in Behavioral Health Care
1. The Therapist's Dilemma: Transformation of the Mental Health Care System
3. Money Talks: Does Profit Influence Care?
2. Resistance to Change: Status Quo, Biases, and Self-Interest
4. Ethical Abuses in Managed and Unmanaged Care: Hearing from Both Sides
Part Two: Psychotherapy Today
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
Part Three: What Do We Need to Do?
8. Individual or Social 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?