Customer Reviews

The Paper Office, Third Edition: Forms, Guidelines, and Resources to Make Your Practice Work Ethically, Legally, and Profitably

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I got this to upgrade the earlier edition I had bought during grad school. Now I am starting my private practice and wanted updated versions of the forms. I now find out most of the forms (some of the most important ones) in this new edition cannot be customized, they only give PDF versions in the CD, so they are basically unusable! I cannot insert my own header as the form recommends I do and at the bottom it says it is taken from Paper Office. This is infuriating. I feel cheated. I am sure the info in the book is good, but why would they do this with the forms? This seems to me like a step back from previous edition I had and it is a misrepresentation of what the book has to offer. SO beware not all the forms are customizable therefore useless, unless you want to copy the content onto word and reformat it.

If you are just beginning an independent practice, I cannot express how valuable this book is! Honestly, I don't know what I would have done without it. Certainly a worthwhile investment!

I purchased this book while studying for my national and state licensing exams. As many other reviewers have noted, this is an excellent resource. Reading this book in between session provided me with a healthy break from the rigours of studying, while orienting me to thinking about the procedures and forms I needed to be developing for my practice once licensed. There is a wealth of information that could be a bit overwhelming as you are glowing over your new shiny license number and wondering what you need to do to get your clients into your practice. Using the strategy of tackling a form a day was also very helpful for me. This book will go a long way to helping you create a sound set of ethical and effective business practices that was probably not covered at all in your graduate training.

This book has come in handy several times. It is especially useful for writing informed consents, and for creating many of the documents you don't realize you need until it is too late!

After several years at a CMHC, I recently launched a private practice. This book was enormously helpful. It got me to think through a variety of issues re: starting a practice, and provided many practical resources (eg URL's, books, etc) as well as the forms that can be downloaded and modified. Of all the practice-launching materials I obtained (and I looked at a lot of them), this was the most helpful by far. At first I hesitated because it is more expensive than some others, but it has proven its worth repeatedly. (Oh, and it's a write-off, of course.) I highly recommend it. (BTW, when I was first starting out in the field, and even sometimes now, I found his book, "Clinician's Thesaurus," quite useful.)

There is not much to say other than this is all you need. There are forms that can be used, tweaked etc as well as the reasons why you need them. Why reinvent the wheel? It's all here and there is also a CD with all the forms included. Great resource for counselors!

This book is proving to be very helpful for my practice. It arrived in excellent condition. I am very pleased.

I would love to review this book, if Amazon had sent it to me. I have spent fruitless hours trying to reach Amazon to tell them that the book has not arived but their voice mail system has been down and their web site has no place for consumer complaints. I guess Amazon thinks they are perfect.

Jo Nanson