Stuck? Next Time Use a Mental Health Treatment Plan.
From Change…
As therapy progresses and as your therapist gets to know you better your treatment plan will almost definitely require minor amendments—and sometimes major changes. Recently, a British social work student, Adam, wrote with questions about this aspect of the treatment plan. He expressed reservations about doing a treatment plan as in his reading he learned that there could be patients/clients whose diagnosis wasn’t clear at the outset of therapy, and only later, during the course of therapy, was the real problem or issue uncovered.
Well, Adam, you are absolutely correct—more often than not, in fact, I would say virtually all the time, issues arise or are uncovered during the course of therapy that were not found during the initial evaluation. A well-trained and experienced clinician will be able to ask the right questions in order to get an accurate diagnosis. However, many issues can cloud an initial evaluation, something we will talk about in a later post. People are complicated and no matter how thorough a psychosocial evaluation is it simply cannot describe fully a living, breathing person. It is rather a sketch—a good sketch, perhaps—but nonetheless a sketch. Click here to read more.
From Other and Etc…Life rolls on while you are in therapy and a myriad of events can occur. Suppose you got a DWI? Or suppose you were recovering from being a former member of a cult? Or maybe you had just faced a new challenge—you lost the use, heaven forbid, of your legs in a workplace accident? These and a myriad of other challenges should be noted in your mental health treatment plan since they are a significant current part of your life. Click here to read more.
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