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L Whiting

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PubMed1999

Negotiating and contracting in a managed care environment: considerations for practitioners.

The world of integrated service provider networks, managed care providers, and preferred provider systems requires clinical social workers to become skilled in business negotiations, with specific attention to contracting for services. This article focuses on the components of negotiating and successfully competing for contracts to gain access to and participate in provider networks for the delivery of mental health services. The authors identify critical elements involved in contracting for services from the perspective of social work practitioners who are now working with or who plan to work with managed care organizations. This pragmatic approach recognizes the controversial nature of social workers' relationship with managed care organizations and the ethical dilemmas that affect both the quality and quantity of client services.

Contract Services↗
PubMed1995

Narcissism, self-esteem, and parental nurturance.

Self-reported narcissism, self-esteem, and perceptions of parents as nurturing were examined in a sample of 459 undergraduates. In zero-order and partial correlations, dimensions from the Narcissistic Personality Inventory displayed inter-relationships and linkages with self-esteem and parental nurturance that conformed with the hypothesis that indices of narcissism fall along a continuum of mental health. Partial correlations controlling for self-esteem also indicated that at least some data for the more adaptive aspects of narcissism were mediated by healthier self-functioning. These results support recent suggestions that narcissism must be conceptualized within frameworks that include healthy self-esteem.

Adaptation, Psychological↗