Psychological treatment plan | PSY 650 Introduction to Clinical & Counseling Psychology | Ashford University

Psychological Therapy Plan 

It is suggested that college students assessment the e-book The Full Grownup Psychotherapy Therapy Planner (Jongsma, Peterson, & Bruce, 2014) for extra help in finishing this project.

Medical and counseling psychologists make the most of remedy plans to doc a shopper’s progress towards short- and long-term objectives. The content material inside psychological remedy plans varies relying on the medical setting. The clinician’s theoretical orientation, evidenced-based practices, and the shopper’s wants are taken into consideration when growing and implementing a remedy plan. Sometimes, the shopper’s presenting drawback(s), behaviorally outlined symptom(s), objectives, goals, and interventions decided by the clinician are included inside a remedy plan.

To know the remedy planning course of, college students will assume the function of a medical or counseling psychologist and develop a complete remedy plan primarily based on the identical case examine utilized for the Psychiatric Analysis project in PSY645. A minimal of 5 peer-reviewed assets have to be used to assist the suggestions made inside the plan. The Psychological Therapy Plan should embody the headings and content material outlined beneath.

Behaviorally Outlined Signs 

• Outline the shopper’s presenting drawback(s) and supply a diagnostic impression.
• Establish how the issue(s) is/are evidenced within the shopper’s habits.
• Checklist the shopper’s cognitive and behavioral signs.

Lengthy-Time period Aim 

• Generate a long-term remedy objective that represents the specified end result for the shopper. 
  • This objective needs to be broad and doesn’t must be measureable.

Brief-Time period Aims

• Generate a minimal of three short-term goals for attaining the long-term objective. 
  • Every goal needs to be said in behaviorally measureable language. Subjective or imprecise goals should not acceptable. For instance, it needs to be said that the target shall be achieved by a particular date or particular symptom shall be lowered by a sure share.

Interventions

• Establish a minimum of one intervention for attaining every of the short-term goals.
• Examine a minimal of three evidence-based theoretical orientations from which acceptable interventions will be chosen for the shopper.
• Clarify the connection between the theoretical orientation and corresponding intervention chosen.
• Present a rationale for the combination of a number of theoretical orientations inside this remedy plan.
• Establish two to 3 remedy modalities (e.g., particular person, couple, household, group, and so forth.) that may be acceptable to be used with the shopper.

It’s a greatest observe to incorporate exterior suppliers (e.g., psychiatrists, medical docs, nutritionists, social employees, holistic practitioners, and so forth.) within the intervention planning course of to construct a assist community that can help the shopper within the achievement of remedy objectives.

Analysis

• Checklist the anticipated outcomes of every proposed remedy intervention primarily based on scholarly literature. 
  • Remember to consider the person’s strengths, weaknesses, exterior stressors, and cultural elements (e.g., gender, age, incapacity, race, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, socioeconomic standing, and so forth.) within the analysis.
• Present an evaluation of the efficacy of evidence-based intervention choices.

Ethics

• Analyze and describe potential moral dilemmas which will come up whereas implementing this remedy plan.
• Cite particular moral rules and any relevant legislation(s) for resolving the moral dilemma(s).

The Psychological Therapy Plan

• Should be eight to 10 double-spaced pages in size (not together with title and references pages) and formatted in keeping with APA model as outlined within the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Should embody a separate title web page with the next:
  • Title of paper
  • Scholar’s identify
  • Course identify and quantity
  • Teacher’s identify
  • Date submitted
• Should use a minimum of 5 peer-reviewed sources along with the course textual content.
• Should doc all sources in APA model as outlined within the Ashford Writing Middle.
• Should embody a separate references web page that’s formatted in keeping with APA model as outlined within the Ashford Writing Middle.