Psychotherapy in the HMO: clinical perspectives.
Tensions between expectations and possibilities in providing mental health services are more evident in closed systems like an HMO. These stresses have an impact on clinical providers of psychotherapy. Because further contact cannot substitute for lack of clinical success, special demand is placed on the clinician to achieve an alliance and then reach closure. The situation of the psychotherapist in the HMO is discussed.
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Community Health Care Plan, New Haven, Connecticut.
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D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States