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    Fit To Practice: Everything you wanted to know about starting your own psychology practice in Australia but were afraid to ask
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    Fit To Practice: Everything you wanted to know about starting your own psychology practice in Australia but were afraid to ask
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    Fit To Practice: Everything you wanted to know about starting your own psychology practice in Australia but were afraid to ask

    By Kaye Frankcom, Bruce Stevens and Philip Watts

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    About this ebook

    Australian psychology practice today is a dynamic, well respected and increasingly competitive environment. Many new psychologists graduate with an expectation of setting up their own private practice. But how is that best done? What are the traps to avoid, the questions to ask, the knowledge needed to succeed?
    Find out here in this book written by three highly experienced psychologists with more than 75 years of private practice experience between them as well as backgrounds in academic training, dealing with complaints about psychologists, training and supervision of psychologists, and presenting as expert witnesses. They’ve seen or experienced just about everything that can be thrown at a modern Australia psychology practice and lived to impart their advice.
    Written from a no-nonsense approach, with plenty of practical examples and personal reflections from each author scattered throughout, this is a manual designed for those either entering private practice or already practicing who might want to continue their professional development.
    Topics covered include:
    • setting up in private practice
    • Medicare audits
    • treatment in a private practice setting
    • consultation, supervision, self-care
    • ethical dilemmas
    • Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT)
    • record keeping, case notes, writing reports
    • avoiding legal pitfalls
    • contingency planning
    • closing and selling a practice
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAustralian Academic Press
    Release dateDec 8, 2016
    ISBN9781922117786
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    Fit To Practice: Everything you wanted to know about starting your own psychology practice in Australia but were afraid to ask
    Author

    Kaye Frankcom

    Kaye Frankcom (M.Psych, clinical, Masters in Science in Medicine, pain managment) is an endorsed clinical and counselling psychologist who commenced private practice in country Victoria and has been operating a group practice of 14 psychologists in Melbourne for over 15 years. She was the President of the Psychologists Board of Victoria for 5 years and then became the first Victorian practitioner appointed to the Psychology Board of Australia. She is a presenter for the APS Institute and an accredited trainer with the International Centre for Clinical Excellence. She has consulted to Worksafe Victoria, the Transport Accident Commission and Comcare in regards management of mental health claims. She is an in demand supervisor and executive coach to allied health practitioners. She still practices as a psychologist clinician.

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    • 5/5
      This is an excellent book for a practitioner looking to establish a practice. Sound advice is presented in simple-to-understand language.