Less Time to Do More

Will psychotherapy survive to be a vital part of inpatient
treatment in the future? Will inpatient units themselves survive, or will
they be replaced by partial hospital programs complemented by supervised
housing arrangements? Will average length of inpatient stay continue to
decrease, or has it reached its lowest possible level?

Less Time to
Do More: Psychotherapy on the Short-Term Inpatient Unit examines the
implications of shorter stays for the practice of inpatient psychotherapy.
The contributors describe techniques that inpatient psychotherapists can use
to remain therapeutically effective despite increased pressure from managed
care companies and the threat of malpractice suits. This book utilizes over
20 years of research on techniques and strategies to bring the reader the
most up-to-date methods as well as the traditional models of inpatient
treatment.

"How can inpatient psychotherapists respond to the
realities of modern hospital practice? Each of these chapters describes one
facet of how the therapist can adapt his or her goals and techniques to
treat seriously ill patients effectively in the limited time
available."-Ellen Leibenluft, M.D., From the Afterword