Practice Management
This section contains articles and resources pertaining to practice management. Look here for articles relating to the administrative matters of running a practice, such as record-keeping, professional wills, and business-related matters. There may be overlap with other sections, so if you do not find the information you are looking for please browse the other sections or use the search box.
Informed Consent (part 1): its origins a...
When asked about informed consent, most clinicians readily identify it as a piece of paper that is signed toward the beginning of a professional encounter. This is true. However, the real truth is that informed consent is actually much more. Surprisingly, an explanation of informed consent also requires...
Your Malpractice Insurance…....
April 4, 2007
Practice Management
Practice Management
Professional liability and risk management tend to be some of the more stressful topics for most clinicians. Receiving a license to practice involves years of study and significant investments of energy and money. It is thus understandable that most clinicians go to great lengths to protect their ability...
Professional Wills...
March 18, 2007
Practice Management
Practice Management
Most clinicians aspire to have a fairly good record-keeping system, as well as procedures for maintaining the confidentiality of those records. As a profession, therapists tend to be quite concerned about record-keeping. This concern is appropriate. Unlike some businesses, the information contained in...
Business Structures for Therapists...
Psychotherapists frequently have questions about choosing a business structure, especially when opening a private practice. “Business structures” doesn’t refer to the type of building in which your practice is housed. Rather, it refers to the type of business association you choose. For example,...
