About The Book
Finding Best Therapy takes parents behind the scenes into the process of understanding the business side of mental healthcare, providing a tutorial on the basics of different psychotherapy models, and ultimately guiding the reader through the maze of finding the right outpatient psychotherapy provider for their adolescent or twentysomething adult child.
For parents unable to find support for their teens to twentysomethings as they face their own life challenges of aging parents, faltering health, unemployment, financial strain, and social disconnection, Doctors Pantaleno and Fisher offer hope. Two veteran psychologists take parents under their wing to offer an insider’s practical overview of the mental healthcare system and the maze of finding quality providers. Our book arms parents with the knowledge they need to overcome obstacles in the search for good therapists and helps them to guide their teens to twentysomethings toward productive action.
What Parents Will Learn From Reading This Book
- What is the extent of the mental health crisis facing our country?
- How do I start a conversation with my teen to twenty something about seeing a therapist and how should I respond if they push back?
- Where do I start to navigate the complex healthcare system
relative to mental health care? - What are the various modalities of psychotherapy?
- What role does the family system play that leads to collaborative problem solving?
About The Authors
Barbara Edell Fisher, PhD
Barbara Edell Fisher, Ph.D. is a New York State licensed psychologist and a certified school psychologist. She has devoted the past 30 years of her career to providing psychotherapy to adults and adolescents on Long Island.
Anthony Pantaleno, PhD
Anthony Pantaleno, PhD has been named the 2007 NYS School Psychologist of the Year by the New York State Association of School Psychologists (NYASP) and the 2008 and 2016 Psychologist of the Year by the Suffolk County Psychological Association (SCPA).