Treatment Planning in Your Practice
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- Share your experience with treatment planning for addictive and compulsive behavior.
- If you are not yet in practice, share your perspectives on what is the necessity of planning.
- Does planning serve to mitigate any challenges between the client and therapist?
- Is treatment planning of more benefit to the client or the clinician? Why?
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Treatment Planning in Your Practice
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So, when assessing a client how does a counselor determine the difference between a client who is addicted and one who is abusing substances? Name three criteria for this assessment.
There is a difference between what is pathological and problematic with any addictive or compulsive behavior because of the obsessiveness of the thinking patterns. With that said comes the normal stress of frustration of not being able to participate in a relaxing or enjoyable activity as a result of the compulsions and addiction issues surrounding financial problems, occupational problems, marital, social, and emotional problems that go with addiction issues. How would we begin to define this with our patients so that there is a clear understanding of the differences and when the line is crossed so that what exists is inability to cease or reduce the action without a higher ...
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