Group psychotherapy and managed mental health care: A clinical guide for providers

Focuses on what is sure to become the most practiced form of mental health care under any managed care system, public or private: short-term group psychotherapy. Comprehensive, "how-to" coverage includes a general overview of managed care principles and tenets of brief group psychotherapy -- process of creating a managed care group . hospitalization factors -- innovative thinking in order to design appropriate models of group treatment for patients diagnosed with specific problems.