SOCW 6202 - Assignment: Scholar Practitioner Project Assignment: Developing an Addiction Treatment Plan

Week 5: Treatment Planning and Relapse Prevention

Some clients enter treatment with problems that they cannot solve by themselves. With an addiction treatment plan, helping professionals and clients may take problems that seem to be impossible to solve and turn them into problems that can be solved.

This week, you develop a 12-month addiction treatment plan for Marge, the addictions patient in the Counseling Session media, using a Treatment Plan Template. In addition, you review a portion of a colleague's addiction treatment plan and provide feedback on his or her approach to addiction treatment planning and relapse prevention.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

· Create addiction treatment plans

· Analyze proposed addiction treatment plans

Learning Resources

Note:  To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Doweiko, H. E. (2019). Concepts of chemical dependency (10th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage.

· Chapter 31, "The Treatment of Substance Use Disorders" (pp. 434-436 / "The Treatment Plan")

Prochaska, J. O., DiClemente, C. C., & Norcross, J. C. (1992). In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors. American Psychologist, 47(9), 1102–1114.

Document: Instructions for Scholar Practitioner Project (SPP) Case Study (PDF)

Document: SPP Treatment Plan Template (Word document)

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2012b). Counseling session 1. [Multimedia file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

(Previously viewed in Week 1)

Document: "Counseling session 1" Transcript (PDF)

Laureate Education (Producer). (2012b). Counseling session 2. [Multimedia file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

(Previously viewed in Week 4)

Document: "Counseling session 2" Transcript (PDF)

Assignment: Scholar Practitioner Project Assignment: Developing an Addiction Treatment Plan

Creating an addiction treatment plan is an individualized, dynamic process that begins at the first meeting with the client and evolves throughout the complete course of treatment in response to changing needs. An addiction treatment plan addresses the holistic needs of the individual. It includes the client's immediate needs while in treatment as well as long-term needs once he or she returns to the community.

For this Assignment, review the resources for this week and consider the methods by which helping professionals can develop aftercare plans to prevent relapse. Use the "Instructions for Scholar Practitioner Project (SPP) Case Study" document to develop your own addiction treatment plan using the "SPP Treatment Plan Template".

Assignment:

Using the "SPP Treatment Plan Template", create a 12-month addiction treatment plan for Marge. Begin with her admission into residential treatment ("Counseling Session 1" media) and proceed throughout her stay ("Counseling Session 2" media). Continue for the next 12 months as you determine how her treatment could evolve. Marge's addiction treatment plan should include the following:

· Course of residential treatment

· Plans for discharge from residential treatment

· Aftercare plans for the next 12 months

· All aspects of the case management of Marge's treatment, including

· counseling/treatment

· family

· social

· vocational

· legal

· mental health

· medical

· other areas that might be important to her continued recovery