Clinician to Leader: Business Management in Behavioral Healthcare

When you're an exceptional clinician, you're likely to be promoted into a leadership role. While you're very skilled at helping clients, leadership takes a different skill set to learn. This book is meant for clinicians new to leadership or wanting to advance their skills to ensure they are providing the best support for their team. Organizations can use this book as an additional training tool for your leadership team.Throughout my career I watched good clinicians struggle with the management side. I watched multiple agencies close due to financial struggles. This book was written to help clinicians and agencies succeed. Clinicians were promoted to management positions without any training or experience with business management, financial management, or supervision. This caused issues not just for individuals and agencies but for the behavioral healthcare field overall.This book is broken down into five sections with categories that are important for leaders in behavioral health management. The five sections include: soft skills in management, clinical management, hard skills in management, business management, and financial management. You can review specific sections that are most useful for your leadership development.