Psychotherapy in a staff model health maintenance organization: Providing and assuring quality care in the future.

Discusses characteristics of effective health maintenance organization therapy. These characteristics include a problem-solving orientation, crisis intervention preparedness, clear definition of patient and therapist responsibilities, flexible and creative use of time, interdisciplinary cooperative treatments, use of multiple formats and modalities, a family practitioner model that allows for intermittent treatment throughout the life cycle, and quality assurance and utilization review procedures. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)