Unique in its field, Psychotherapy and Managed Care is designed to help future therapists and counselors cope with the demands of managed care in positive ways. It provides convenient access to an enormous amount of information that pre-service clinicians require to communicate productively with managed care companies and survive professionally, while offering the most responsive treatment to their clients.

Psychotherapy and Managed Care emphasizes the need to focus training on empirically validated treatment methods that provide the measurable treatment outcomes that managed care companies demand. The text also systematically integrates research findings from five separate, extensive literatures — general psychotherapy effectiveness, common factors, solution-focused interventions, brief problem-solving techniques, and empirically supported treatments for specific disorders. It describes how increased accountability can spur the field's growth and improvement.