Focusing on Relationships: An Effort That Pays – Parent–Child Relationship, Com…

Focusing on Relationships: an Effort That PaysParent-Child Relationship, Competencies-Based Assessment, Treatment Planning, Documentation, and Billing\nAuthor(s): Maria Seymour St John\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, & Families, United States\nImprint: ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, & Families\nISBN-13: 9781938558658, 978-1938558658\nSynopsis\nThe field of infant and early childhood mental health is in a quandary. Best practice demands that infants and young children be treated in the context of their relationships with caregivers. But health insurance systems, including Medicaid, require that an individual, not a relationship, be identified as a subscriber and that treatment be documented and billed accordingly. This discrepancy produces conceptual and ethical dilemmas for clinicians. How do they document relationship-based intervention? How do they bring billing procedures into alignment with best p.