Psychologists, resist managed care! comment.

Suárez, Alejandra

doi:10.1037/0003-066x.59.2.127

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“…However, we encourage efforts to continue to disseminate information regarding a largely unexplored issue that may have important implications for children. We agree with Suarez (2004, this issue) and Salyer (2004, this issue) that the value of direct and personal experience should not be overlooked. Those in private practice may indeed face challenges in dealing with managed care with which we do not have personal experience.…”

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Managed Care Viewed From the Ivory Tower: Comment.

Salyer¹

2004

American Psychologist

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Managed Care Viewed From the Ivory Tower: Comment.

Salyer¹

2004

American Psychologist

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“…We agree with Suarez (2004, this issue) and Salyer (2004, this issue) that the value of direct and personal experience should not be overlooked. Those in private practice may indeed face challenges in dealing with managed care with which we do not have personal experience.…”

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Emerging Patterns of Practice in the Era of Managed Care: Reply.

Sanchez¹,

Turner²

2004

American Psychologist

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It is understandable that a graduate student and a university professor, neither of whom has worked extensively in private practice, would have misconceptions about how managed care works and its impact on the profession. What is most disconcerting, however, is that Sanchez and Turner's (2003) article, with a number of misperceptions, got published when 90% of the articles submitted get rejected (Zimbardo, 2002). Were any of the reviewers experienced clinicians? Did they ask experienced clinicians with an alternate view for feedback? I recommend that the editorial staff give equal space to an invited article on this topic that reflects the perspective of experienced clinicians who have worked extensively with MCOs.

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“…No clinician can escape the fact that the structure of as well as beliefs about psychotherapy are enormously influenced by the institutions that support and surround the practice and most recently, the institution influencing our clinical practice most is that of managed care (Sanchez & Turner, 2003; Wylie, 1992; Zimet, 1989). Managed care has supported short-term, problem-focused, empirically validated forms of therapy for obvious reasons, the primary reason being they seem to be more cost-effective (Sanchez & Turner, 2003; Suarez, 2004) in spite of research that show 80% of clinicians report managed care has had a negative impact on their work (Phelps, Eisman, & Kohour, 1998). Forgiveness therapy has been responsive to the constraints of managed care, for it focuses on one problem or, offense, rather than the individual’s more general personality structure which would, in most cases, play a part in a response to a wrongdoing; it promises relief from pain and misery in relation to that one problem; can measure relief in reference to that problem; and it promises relief in a set number of sessions.…”

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Forgiveness Therapy: The Context and Conflict.

Lamb¹

2005

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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This paper is a critique of forgiveness therapy that focuses on the cultural contexts in which forgiveness therapy arose, with a special focus on the movement to address the victimization of women. I describe forgiveness as described by forgiveness therapy advocates and the moral and non-moral benefits claimed on its behalf. I then describe the cultural context that may explain the popularity of this form of therapy at this historical moment; the first context is a broad cultural context, looking at ideologies and practices that support forgiveness as a therapeutic intervention; the second context is the more narrow context of a movement within the field of psychology called "positive psychology" that also supports forgiveness interventions; and the third context, is the ideologies and narratives around victimization and in particular victimization against women that have led to an application of forgiveness therapy for victims of abuse (Freedman & Enright, 1996). After describing these three contexts in which forgiveness therapy arose, I present a critique from a feminist as well as a broader humanistic/psychodynamic perspective. FORGIVENESS THERAPY: THE CONTEXT AND CONFLICTForgiveness and reconciliation are wonderful ideas. Together they connect a repentant, regretful, and remorseful wrongdoer, now a sufferer too, with the injured person, who may be to some extent ready to offer compassion and empathy in spite of her or his suffering. In this moral balancing act, the wrongdoer's suffering sends a message to the one he or she has wounded that the harm is acknowledged and the injured's rights must be taken seriously. The offender also makes a claim on behalf of him or herself that he is human, moral, and "one of us". The one who is hurt, depending on the depth of the hurt, and distance from it, her or his judgment of how sincere the wrongdoer is, This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.

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Psychologists, resist managed care! comment.

Cited by 6 publications

References 6 publications

Managed Care Viewed From the Ivory Tower: Comment.

Managed Care Viewed From the Ivory Tower: Comment.

Emerging Patterns of Practice in the Era of Managed Care: Reply.

Forgiveness Therapy: The Context and Conflict.

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