Main description:

*The bridge from school to clinical practice, updated; 40% new material includes coverage of telehealth, electronic medical records, and more.
*Answers every graduate's "Now what do I do?" question.
*Friendly, approachable trove of advice that helps new therapists hit the ground running.
*What most courses don't cover--informed consent, resistance, impasses, and the popular billing and scheduling!
*Organized to follow the course of therapy, from the first contact to termination.

Contents:

Foreword,Nhi-Ha Trinh
Introduction
I. The Consultation
1. First Contact
2. The First Moments
3. Initiating an Alliance and Assessing Safety
4. Enhancing the Therapeutic Alliance and Eliciting History
5. Collecting a Psychosocial History and Screening for Common Psychological Disorders
6. Creating a Formulation and a Treatment Plan
II. Frame and Variations
7. The Frame
8. Setting the Fee and Billing
9. Telephone Calls and Emails: From Dependencies to Emergencies
10. No-Shows, Late Arrivals, and Late Departures
11. When the Therapist's Life Affects the Frame: Vacations, Pregnancies, and Illness
12. Confidentiality and Its Limits
III. Chemistry
13. Substance Use Disorders
14. Integrating Psychopharmacology with Psychotherapy
IV. Therapeutic Dilemmas
15. Managing Impasses
16. Empathic Lapses
17. Transference and Countertransference
18. Termination
V. Being a Therapist
19. Professional Development
Glossary
Additional Readings
References
Index