Programs

Sexual relations between therapist and patient can seriously damage the public’s trust in the safety of their loved ones.

Clients who struggle to stay drug-free can resent the presence in group of others who openly use substances.

Some schedule periodic onsite visits that one wag compared to a pterodactyl circling overhead screaming at the ground before flying off again.

For instance, a business that isn’t meeting investor expectations might decide to launch an aggressive marketing campaign without a corresponding increase in staff.

Many years ago, when I was a young Executive Director, one of the hospital VPs wandered down to my office to inquire about the census. It (continued…)

Most people who enact laws aren’t healthcare experts or even for that matter particularly interested in the subject of addiction and treatment.

My longstanding rule is to design your program to treat your population, not some idealized group of subjects who did well in a research setting with a significantly different structure.

Unhealthy conflict among staff can ‘bleed’ over into patient care, and that’s never good.

The best way we’ve found to teach clarity in documentation (and that’s really the goal) is to use real-life examples and ask the group for feedback on the quality of each student’s progress note.

You’re probably not thinking about the stuff you wrote about today’s middling-good group session as something that could be important when an insurance company reviews the case.