Assisting Clients For An Important Factor Of Any Program

Plan - Client Objectives until next review: attend monthly group as scheduled, verify sober support meetings, schedule and attend individual sessions, provide UA when asked, and comply with legal mandates to maintain the privilege of deferred prosecution. Client is to work on treatment plan on a timely manner.

The Doctor and Patient relationship aspect of Medicine has changed drastically in the last twenty years. It has evolved from paternalism (the doctor makes the decision for the patient) to shared decision making where the patient is considered an equal partner in his/her own health related decisions. Informed consent is the cornerstone for this view. When a patient or a research subject makes an autonomous decision after understanding, the risks and benefits involved with the decision is Informed consent. Complete Informed consent covers the following components: competency, disclosure, comprehension and voluntary. Competency refers to the requirement for the individual to be of legal age and be mentally competent to understand the process.

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A therapist assist each client to set individualized goals, the following goals appertain to all clients. Clients are to live a drug-free lifestyle; improve their social skills build up their self-esteem, become motivated and develop personalized prevention plan (New Horizons Community Mental Health Center, 2014).

When monitoring care and progress towards the family’s goals to make available to the family an inform consent form to be able to assess progress of effective goals from other services involved. This would be helpful for readjustment of goals. When monitoring the progress of Jimmy’s behavior, parents would journal Jimmy’s daily actions. They would solicit reports from his school teacher on his participation and disruption in class. Moreover, with the inform consent release I as counselor would communicate with each resource program Jimmy and the family are in. This would give data on what is needed to continue treatment. If Jimmy responding to the services and accomplishment Jimmy has made within the selective time period for review. With the

Abby will complete 10-12 week of women’s residential treatment program and up to 20 weeks of aftercare while maintaining abstinence from drugs and alcohol. Abby‘s objective with treatment is to identify how her using impacted the relationships with her children and significant other. She will be honest about personal consequences in-group and written assignments. She will practice new skills to enhance relationships that support her recovery

Alice needed an assessment of her needs and to have a care plan that is regularly reviewed by professionals. Assessment is the decision making process, based upon the collection of relevant information, using a format set of ethical criteria, that contributes to an overall estimation of a person and her circumstances (Barker, 2004). I was going to get most of the information from Alice. Barker (2009) suggests that wherever possible information should be obtained directly from the person, either in the form of some kind of self report or via observation. Good communication and a systematic approach to data collection are needed for a successful assessment.

I prioritized the client's goals by assessing their significance, manageability, and influence. Reducing Ellen's criminal activity is the number one goal because it is critical and vitally important. This goal was necessary to accomplish first because Ellen could become detained early in treatment and that would terminate the therapeutic alliance. Therefore, reducing Ellen's criminal activity would be the primary goal. Successful completion of goal number one also indicates the client's readiness to advance into the next phase of therapy. Successful completion of goal number one will influence Ellen to take the next step in therapy which is to obtain a volunteer position.

The addicted population have seen and experienced some of the darkest sides of life, and do well with goal-oriented counseling. Action steps and goal attainment are reachable and tangible benchmarks for the recovering addict. Goals can also be a great way for counselors to assess a client’s progress. Hiebert (1996) outlined a method of goal assessment called Goal Attainment Scaling. Hiebert stated, “this helps ensure that counselor and client are both clear about the nature of change the client is seeking and that the client's expectations for counselling are realistic,” (para. 13). In utilizing a measurable system for a client to gauge their progress, it also gives the counselor an insight into not only the client’s progress, but how they value the progress they may have discussed. This would provide good talking points within the counseling relationship regarding new strategies, and realistic

The client is being more involved in his treatment by helping to create rules for his household and monitor his behavior.

Case Management 1.) Social work and case management are interrelated. Social worker’s get multiple cases to work with, a case load, to efficiently help every client in the case load, a social worker has to have the skill to manage their cases. Case management also refers to the process a social worker must go through (assessing, evaluating, advocacy, and coordination) while handling the cases. Case management means the work social worker’s do in the field.

Special considerations are required when obtaining informed consent from a patient that is mentally-disabled, as they may not be able to fully comprehend the information they are being given. It is up to the nurse and/or medical professionals to assess and determine if the patient is capable of giving informed consent and able to comprehend all information and education given. Participants that are mentally-disabled may not be capable of giving informed consent and therefore the patient would need some type of legally authorized person. It would be the responsibility of the nurse and/or other medical professional doing the research to provide an appropriate explanation, seek the individual's assent, consider the preferences and best interests, and obtain appropriate permission from a legally authorized person or patient, if

The informed consent process involves establishing the basic framework between a therapist and their client that serves as an ethical and legal requirement as well as the formation of a basic working partnership between a therapist and their client. The informed consent is essentially an informational exchange between a therapist and a client that outlines the process of therapy. It also allows the client to be informed of their rights in order to make conscientious and thoughtful decisions related to their therapy. An interesting fact about informed consent is that is it can be provided in written and oral form, or a combination of the two (Corey, 2013).

Clarification and agreement around the client’s goals represents a starting point for collaborative exploration of multiple ways in which these goals can be attained. Goal setting offers a platform for both therapist and client to resolve any differences through collaborative dialogue which reflects their mutual intentions and understandings (Clark, 1996) Goals can be defined as immediate, those which help to achieve longer term goals, goals to be worked on in therapy and long term or life goals (Hanley, Sefi & Ersahin, 2016) A client may formulate life goals including non-specific, contradictory, avoidant, unattainable or no life goals, which can then be broken down into therapeutic goals and the therapist will have her own goals as well

The goal for therapy should be to create a second order of change. My therapy goals are heavily rooted in solution-based therapy. In this sense, the goal of therapy is to “unstick people from their current patterns and perceptions and help them discover new, concrete possibilities for their immediate futures” (Bitter, 2009, p. 223) Goal-making in my eyes is a collaborative process between therapist and client. It’s the therapist’s role to engage the client in optimistic conversations about the present and future and guide them toward goal-oriented solutions. This type of approach fits my personality as I am naturally upbeat and look for the positive exceptions in situations. Steve de Shazer believed that effective goals are: “small; meaningful to the client; described concretely; fit the actual lives of the participants; require in them that they are working hard; and start something