SWK 530 Treatment plan
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Steps_in_Treatment_Planning.pptSteps in Treatment Planning
1. Summarize client’s current situation
2. Ask the KEY QUESTION (an open question):
- “What is the next step?”
- “What changes, if any, are you thinking of making?”
- “Where do we go from here?”
- “What happens next?”
- “What do you think you will do?”
Steps in Treatment Planning
3. Negotiate a change plan
a.) setting goals – utilize the KEY
QUESTION to develop goals
b.) considering change options BRAINSTORM or
PROVIDE A MENU “here are some of the things others have successfully tried, which do you think would work best for you?”
Steps in Treatment Planning
3. Negotiate a change plan (continued)
c.) arriving at a plan
– “So what is the first step?”
– “How will you go about it?”
– “What is it that you specifically
plan to do?”
Have the client voice it!
Steps in Treatment Planning
3. Negotiate a change plan (continued)
d.) eliciting commitment
– “Is that what you want to do?”
If the answer isn’t “yes”, you still have work to do!
Steps in Treatment Planning
Summary of the steps:
Summarize client’s current situation
Ask the KEY QUESTION
Negotiate a change plan
Arrive at a plan
Elicit commitment
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