Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Advance Access originally published online on January 6, 2009
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 2008 8(4):370-380; doi:10.1093/brief-treatment/mhn024
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Preparing Child Psychologists for Managed Care: Educational and Training Considerations
From the Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa Rosa
Contact author: Daniel B. Pickar, Staff Psychologist Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, 401 Bicentennial Way, Santa Rosa, CA 95403. E-mail: dan.pickar{at}kp.org.
In today's health care marketplace dominated by Health Maintenance Organizations and managed care, psychology internship and residency programs must increasingly prepare child psychologists to practice in a variety of managed care settings. Educational and training considerations are outlined to provide a framework for supervising child psychologists in such settings. Principles of practice in managed care are first addressed. Training should be guided by both the teaching of evidence-based practices and common factors research emphasizing the nontechnical aspects of care (i.e., therapeutic alliance, client/extratherapeutic factors). The utility of integrative child and family therapy models is highlighted, and training recommendations specific to managed care settings are presented.
KEY WORDS: managed care, child psychology training, clinical supervision, brief psychotherapy, child and adolescent psychotherapy