October 2022 EHR and Practice Management Updates
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National Psychotherapy Day is recognized on September 25th of each year. It was created by Ryan Howes, Ph.D., ABPP, and a group of professionals to promote the profession to raise awareness and funding. Their goal remains today – to support underfunded community mental health centers and low-fee psychotherapy clinics throughout the nation.
Psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy, helps individuals develop problem-solving skills, become increasingly self-aware, and build confidence. These abilities help people to live constructive and satisfying lives.
At its core, it teaches how to identify and manage mental health issues. It also encourages taking personal responsibility for one’s actions. Suitable for both adults and children, it’s used to treat people either in individual, couples, family, or group settings.
Prospective patients often pursue psychotherapy at the urging of someone else. Typically, they don’t know much about the treatment beyond what they’ve heard about other people’s experiences.
Here are basics that could encourage prospects to pursue treatment:
There needs to be a unified campaign for psychotherapy awareness, and this national day of observance is an ideal platform to launch. Its scope reaches prospective patients and their families to spread awareness. It’s a vehicle to let people know the options available to help them with their mental health and emotional problems.
The educational aspect of this occasion goes a long way to dispelling any false narrative on the subject, propagated by the general public’s misunderstanding of what behavioral therapy is. There needs to be a recognition of its benefits, particularly the issues it helps to heal in a person’s life. These activities around September 25th will help put mental health therapy in the same standing as treatments for physical ailments.
The National Psychotherapy Day campaign is a beneficial time to further build a practice by reaching more prospective patients and clients who lack awareness of the services available to them today.
Here are a few approaches to inspire and grow:
As awareness turns to demand for counseling from new patients, scaling a practice becomes an opportunity. With therapists stretched to capacity and support staff frustrated, automating operational processes is a practical option. This allows therapists more billable hours available with less redundant face sheet activity. It frees staff to minimize repetitive administrative work while streamlining interaction with patients.
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