title: Coming to terms with management.
abstract: This article postulates that clinicians need to understand the nature of the management role in substance abuse agencies, even if they have no aspirations to occupy a management role, because it profoundly affects their conditions of work as clinicians. The article aims to demystify the management role, breaking it down into three major areas of related functions: clinical management, business management, and agency management. A crucial and much misunderstood aspect of the management role, especially at the agency level, is the dimension of power or the management of organizational politics. Lastly we note several advantages that the former clinician has as a manager.
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002322:Career Mobility; D006801:Humans; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*