Social Work in a Managed Care Environment

Clinical Guidelines in a Managed Care Environment

Communicating in a managed care environment.

MANAGED CARE IN MICHIGAN (lathy Smillie, president, Marketing Resources Unlimited, a healthcare marketing firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, received her managed care communications training when she served as director of sales and marketing for MCARE, the managed care organization owned by the University of Michigan (U-M), Ann Arbor. Of her work in managed care, Smillie points out that it "was one o...

Social Work in Disaster, a Case Report

Introduction: Natural disasters cause many problems for society. Children are one of the most vulnerable groups that could face severe mental illness and are often separated from their family members and primary caregivers in this situation. Therefore, professional interventions are necessary to reduce the consequence of such situations for children. The purpose of this article is to report a s...

Evaluation of the Infertile Couple in a Managed Care Environment

Identifying highly effective psychotherapists in a managed care environment.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the variability and stability of psychotherapists' effectiveness and the implications of this differential effectiveness for quality improvement in a managed care environment. STUDY DESIGN Subset archival outcome data for patients receiving behavioral health treatment were divided into 2 time periods to cross-validate the treating therapists' effectiveness. After cate...