Professional Development links

BOOKS

MARKETING, ETC.

Highly Recommended:

Twelve Months to Your Ideal Private Practice: A Workbook. (2003).  Lynn Grodzki, LCSW. 

Saying Good-Bye to Managed Care:  Building Your Independent Psychotherapy Practice.  (2001).  Sandra Haber, Elaine Rodino, and Iris Lipner.

Breaking Free of Managed Care.  (1997).  Dana Ackley.

How to Get Referrals: The Mental Health Professionals Guide to Strategic Marketing. (2000).  Linda Lawless & G. Jean Wright.

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Really Good:

The New Private Practice (2002).  Lynn Godzki.

Building Your Ideal Private Practice.  (2000).  Lynn Godzki.

How to build a thriving fee-for-service practice : integrating the healing side with the business side of psychotherapy.  (1999). Laurie Kolt.

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Good:

To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love.  (1995).  Marsha Sinetar.  (Also, Do what you Love and the Money Will Follow).

Successful Private Practice in the 1990s.  (1990).  Joan Beigel and Ralph Earle.

Therapy Inc.  (1997).  Linda Lawless.

From couch to corporation : becoming a successful corporate therapist.  (1996). Iris Martin.

If You Really Love Managed Care:

Marketing for Therapists.  (1996).  Jeri Davis, Ed.

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LEGAL/ETHICAL.

Must have:

The Legal Guide For Practicing Psychotherapy in Colorado. (2003).  Denis K. Lane, M.A., J.D.

Decoding the Ethics Code: A Practical Guide for Psychologists. (2003).  Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D.  Dr. Fisher chaired the development of the 2002 APA Ethics Code and wrote this highly readable, chock full o' useful, real world examples supplement to the Ethics Code.

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Good:

The Portable Lawyer for Mental Health Professionals (1998).  Barton Bernstein and Thomas Hartsell.

A Clinicians Guide to Legal Issues in Psychotherapy.  (1999).  William Reid.

The Mental Health Practioner and the Law.  (1998).  Lawrence Lifson and Robert Simon.