DESCRIPTION:

What will the practice of psychotherapy look like in five, ten, fifteen years? More to the point, how can therapists best position themselves to have the kind of career they want and make a good living doing it? This webcast series brings together some of the field’s leading innovators and business-minded visionaries to examine the range of issues and career possibilities therapists should consider today while charting their course for the future.

• Discover alternatives to the traditional private practice model that better fit the new mental health marketplace.
• Explore how the mental health consumers of today differ from the “patients” of past decades.
• Find out about new career paths that draw on the therapeutic skills you already possess.
• Examine how technology is opening up new possibilities for therapeutic practice.
• Get up to speed about the marketing and business skills 21st century practitioners will need to succeed.

OUTLINE:

Session 4 (Nicholas Cummings): Integrated Behavioral Healthcare and You

Get an overview of the professional and economic factors shaping the future of private practice and the new career opportunities emerging for therapists by:

• Reviewing the historical relationship between psychotherapy and the larger healthcare system.
• Examining the current trends shaping the direction of managed care and the economic prospects for private practitioners in the future.
• Exploring how the crisis in healthcare today is creating new roles for psychotherapists within the medical system.
• Describing the knowledge base and other skills that professionals trained in the growing field of behavioral healthcare will need to succeed in a medical practice setting.
• Looking at how to best position yourself to maximize your earning potential within the healthcare system of tomorrow.

OBJECTIVES:

Learning Objectives - Session 4 (Nicholas Cummings):

• Explain the relationship between psychotherapy and the larger healthcare system.
• Explore how the current healthcare crisis is creating new roles for psychotherapists.
• Determine how to best position your practice in the new healthcare system.