What were the most compelling points from the interaction with your fellow students? How did participating in this discussion help in your understanding of the Discussion Board task?
What have you learned from others’ responses?
- What were the most compelling points from the interaction with your fellow students?
- How did participating in this discussion help in your understanding of the Discussion Board task?
- What approaches could have yielded additional valuable information in the students’ networking?
- What is still unclear after the discussion with your classmates that needs to be clarified?
I personally do not believe that there is any one more critical aspect of developing a plan for a client. I believe the whole plan has to work together in order for the client to succeed. However, the most critical aspect would be the client’s willingness and positive participation in their own recovery.
Goals for the client are very important in a treatment plan that is designed around the client’s issues. It is important to discuss with the client what his/her goals are for their future and to maintain sobriety. As the client works through the goals set, things can change and adjusting the goals is sometime necessary for the client to reach their ultimate goals. However, the goals must be clear and understandable by both the client and the therapist.
The client being proactive in their treatment plan and working the treatment with their therapist is key. If the client is not fully into their own recovery then there is a high change of relapse. Setting goals and working with therapist and also finding a support group that is specific to the client’s addiction and similar goals towards recovery and lower the chances of relapse. Help the client find the support they need, group, family member, hobbies, or exercising, etc.
Making notes as the client progresses with their goals and improvements is an essential part of the therapist to communicate with the client and make sure that the goals are still good or need to be adjusted; or if the goals are going as planned and individual sessions to discuss any issues the client may be having with their progress towards sobriety and reentering life (work, school, social functions and relationships) with a positive outlook on the future.
The last important aspect of the written plan is the outcomes, or success. Make sure to write these down at various intervals. Maybe you visit the outcomes so far once a month, maybe every three months, etc. Choose what interval works best for your client and your style and make sure to plan to talk with them about it (Hall, 2015).
I personally believe that any client that has needed an inpatient facility to help with understanding their addiction and learning tools to cope with stress and trauma without going straight to the drugs or alcohol, after care is necessary. A client cannot just jump into after care without working all the steps needed to understand their thinking process and addiction. Aftercare is to help the client reinforce the tools for coping that were learned in the inpatient and how to use them out in the real world. Aftercare is imperative for the client as to if they have an issue and cannot handle it with the tools they were taught, there is the aftercare meetings or appoints that the client can go ask for help and talk out the problem.
The primary goal of aftercare is to prevent a relapse into drug or alcohol use. By providing continuing counseling, group sessions and other schedule meetings, aftercare programs provide an extra level of accountability that helps insure that the individual has not fallen back on old habit (Aftercare for Drug and Alcohol Rehab, 2017).
Keys to improve the client’s chances of success are learning what their triggers are and implement the coping skills that the client has learned to strive off cravings and stress. Having the access to a counselor/mentor at any time needed to talk when one starts to feel that they cannot handle the problems and having issues with implementing coping skills learned.
Prevention plans to prevent relapse, clarifies to the client to estimate possible consequences of slipping in advance of giving into the craving of the drug or alcohol. Just because a client may slip and have a drink or use a drug once is a lapse, but does not mean that it will turn into a full blown relapse. Because the chances of relapse are so high, it’s important to learn how to cope with the occasional slip if it does occur (Aftercare for Drug and Alcohol Rehab, 2017).
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Successful Treatment Plan
What aspects of developing a treatment plan do you think is most critical to the success of the client?
The aspect of developing a treatment plan, I think is the most critical to the success of the client is well developed treatment plan, which is understandable by both parties, the client and the doctor, who is currently working alongside with the client and set of tools and tactics that address the client’s distinguishable strong point as well as her or his issues and deficits. It presents an approach for putting in order the main resources and activities, and identifies benchmarks of successful treatment plan to guide great work for stabilization.
Lastly, a developed treatment plan to be successful can be mapped out with particular where clients are in recovery from ingredient use and criminality, where they need to be at that point in their lives, how they can best use available resources individual program-based, or criminal justice) to get to their climax.
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How do you get the clients from treatment to ongoing stabilization of care? For example, for they all need to follow the same steps from inpatient to aftercare, or can a client come somewhere in the middle and still move forward and be successful?
How do you get the clients from treatment to ongoing stabilization of care?
Example: The way I would get clients from treatment to ongoing stabilization of care is by 1st setting up a goal and a plan. Which both the client and I as the pyhchartist fully agree on.
The 1st step in treating my clients for treatment plan for ongoing stabilization .I would get them involved in some counseling and therapy that might deal with their treatment. Man planned need for that client specifically. Since, this class is dealing with drugs and alcohol; I would help my client find some type of detoxifying group for those who use either drugs or alcohol. Immediately while going in to this treatment, my client is to participates in a brief stabilization phase created for detoxify him or her while getting over the addictive drugs, to get the psychosocial stability, and/or to begin to establish basic recovery supports. The group counselor works with the client throughout the stabilization period.
Lastly would use my goals of stabilization phase of treatment to help the client be successful by establishing their abstinence from drugs and alcohol with the assistance from other professionals and drug rehab centers.
In conclusion: I would assist the client to be successful by helping them become encouraged to go to the ongoing treatment plan to become stabilized. Assess the client’s psychosocial stability for example; decide if he or she nonexistence a stable, drug-free living community or has significant psychopathology that might obstruct with his or her help or assistance from the drug and alcohol recovery program. I would help make available education and support to help the client increase his or her knowledge of drug and alcohol addiction and recovery and encourage him or her to get involved in treatment and the recovery processes.
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What steps might you take to increase the client’s potential for success?
The steps that I might take to increase the clients potential success is #1once take the steps to clients assist my clients and help them get involved and acclimated with in the daily activities in order for the treatment to work well. Other, steps I would take to help client my client to be successful is by having the treatment, retention becoming a mandatory. Many challenges might grow or developed during treatment. Lapses may happen. There are multiple times, clients are not capable or cooperative to adhere to program necessities. Repeated admissions and defaults can might happen. Clients may have altercation, which mandates from various service systems. There are many thoughts about client and staff associations, involve setting the right boundaries, can finding the middle ground care. Intensive outpatient treatment (IOT) programs require having clear decision-making processes and preservation tactics to state these and other issues.
Finally, decreasing client slow destruction during treatment must be a priority for IOT providers. Compared with clients who drop out, those who are retained in outpatient treatment tend to be White, male, and worked ( McFaul et al. 2001 ). Client characteristics supplementary with higher dropout rates are addressed “red flags” by White and colleagues (1998) ; these red flags involve marginalized status (e.g., racial minorities, people who are economically disadvantaged), decrease of an armature skill, recent hospitalization, and past family history of substance abuse.
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The most important aspect of developing a treatment plan that is crucial to the success of the client is the therapist and client relationship. A therapist and client relationship should consist of the therapist being genuinely engaged, having unconditional positive regard for the client, Empathy, and clear communicative attitudes such as eye contact, and positive body language (Connecting with clients, n.d.) . There are three goals a therapist and client should work towards in achieving to build this relationship goal consensus where counselor and client work on collaborate on tasks and emotional bonding. The counselor being able to listen to the client’s distress and their hopes and then being able to articulate them back to the client by ways of asking questions and then evaluating the many different dimensions of the clients replies. The second would be to incorporate tasks that the counselor and client agree upon to partake in accomplishing. Setting goals and a reward system, reassurance and continued support to help continuation of bonding building of trust between the counselor and client. The final one is the emotional bonding consisting of compassion, empathy, or humor at times or just listening to the client’s strong emotions and providing positive and supportive feedback (Connecting with clients, n.d.) . So, once the trust and relationship between the counselor and the client have been established it will then be easier to come up with a treatment plan that will most likely be successful for the client.
How to get the clients from treatment to ongoing stabilization of care? It is advised that the admission process consist of assessing the person’s readiness for change and then applying strategies that will help motivate the client to enter treatment with the will to participate. Establish the counselor and client relationship, identify and overcome any barriers that may discourage the client from participating in treatment, matching clients to the least intensive and restrictive treatment setting to support recovery effectively, finding and developing individualized interventions that will work for the client’s special needs instead of trying to put them in a predefined program (Treatment Entry and Engagement, n.d.) . Do they need to follow all the steps from inpatient to aftercare or can a client come in somewhere in the middle and still move forward and succeed? There are going to be many goals set, Some short term and some long term. It would be hard to expect a client to adhere to all the steps although it is encouraging to do so there are going to be downfalls, these are new skills being learned and old habits are hard to break. Just stay focused and instill positivity in the client that they can complete the steps required of them. Motivation from counselor to client is a good thing to have especially when the client is somewhere in the middle. Some people require more time than others to reach success.
The steps that I would take to increase my client’s potential for success is MOTIVATION! It is the key to change, it is multidimensional, dynamic and fluctuating, it is influenced by the counselor’s style and can be modified through elicit and enhanced motivation. I would apply motivation by giving advice, removing any barriers, provide the client choice, decrease the desirability, provide empathy and feedback, clarify all the goals set out, and be an active participant by helping (Motivating Clients for Treatment and Motivating Clients for Treatment and Addressing Resistance, n.d.)
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Treatment plans are very important for many clients and should be carefully examined. I believe not just one aspect of a treatment plan is more crucial than others because I think the whole plan must work in conjunction with the therapist and the client for it to work successfully. If I had to choose where to begin for it to start working effectively, I would say assessments such as mental exams and psychological examinations are what creates what a plan should be. It is important to work with clients rather than impose the plan upon them. In the case of a crisis, an emergency plan is put in place until an ongoing plan can be developed. (MUSE,2013) It starts with assessments then from there, the therapist would refer the client to a specific treatment facility or plan for them. It is important that the client and therapist build a level of trust because the client must feel comfortable to talk to the therapist. It is the professionals job to keep their information private and confidential and this can help clients feel more open about their situation and be more willing to participate in getting the right treatment.
Getting clients from treatments to ongoing stabilization of care is important because treatment does not just stop after recovery as many people relapse and have their urges because counseling therapies has stopped. I think treatment plans are more successful when clients start from the beginning and receive the counseling needed even after therapy as support can continue to prevent chances of relapse. I believe each client would benefit better when going through all the steps required and even after however, I also believe for some people they can have success in treatment when coming in the middle as many just are motivated to get help and continue with support groups. I do think for these clients who don’t start in the beginning do have more challenges and must have more patience and trust for their therapists and the plans they incorporate. Some clients do require more time than others in treatment and each client must be willing to participate for any step to work successfully.
For each client, there will be long term or short-term goals set by them and the therapist and it will help shape their recovery plan. One step I would start with is Motivation as this is key as well as perseverance. I would encourage the client to keep a positive attitude as far as their recovery goes as many people lose motivation which causes relapse. Taking responsibility, getting involved with those of like minds, pursuing dreams, and achieving short- and long-term goals are an essential part of moving forward. Aftercare, self-help groups, 12-step groups, and other supportive activities can help the client continue stabilization and reduce recidivism. Reducing stress to avoid the stress-regress problems associated with relapse is essential. (MUSE,2013) Many clients will achieve their goals as long as they stay focused and motivated and continue to trust their therapist. They can succeed regardless of their level of addictions as many people are worse off than others.
