Description
As a part of improving skills for developing appropriate interventions, you will design a treatment plan that focuses on recovery and is appropriate for the particular client being treated.
In this assignment, shift your focus from stabilization to the recovery aspect of treatment.
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Tasks:
Based on the information provided in the vignette, design a treatment plan for Veronica, including the following elements:
- Grieving
- Cognitive restructuring of faulty beliefs
- Insight and behavioral change
Veronica has been in treatment for a couple of months, and you are now designing a comprehensive treatment plan focused on her stabilization.
Create a 2- to 3-page plan in a Microsoft Word document describing how you will achieve the following:
- Describe in narrative form how you will establish the therapeutic goals for the treatment and how you will make certain Veronica takes an active role in the identification of those goals.
- Analyze and explain specific interventions that are helpful to Veronica in this stage.
- Analyze and explain the therapeutic homework and the treatment for Veronica in case of acute symptoms of PTSD between sessions.
- Identify and explain the specific interventions to help Veronica achieve the reconnection stage of recovery.
- Analyze and explain long-term goals, short-term objectives, and the therapeutic interventions of the treatment plan.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Running head: TREATMENT PLAN
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Treatment Plan
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Institutional Affiliation
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TREATMENT PLAN
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Treatment Plan
Describe in narrative form how you will establish the therapeutic goals for the treatment
and how you will make certain Veronica takes an active role in the identification of those
goals.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is recognized as a type of anxiety disorder that
develops over time after a person like Veronica get exposed to or in other words witnesses a
traumatic event that is to a great extent seen as life-threatening or that threatens the integrity of
one’s self or others, and this results in one reacting with intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
Such events include childhood sexual abuse like the case of Veronica and it requires a
comprehensive treatment plan for recovery to be realized. Part of this needs the establishment of
therapeutic goals and ensuring that Veronica is actively involved in the identification of those
goals (Foa, et al., 2008). Becoming aware of these goals and putting in place the treatment plan
requires focusing on input from both the therapist as well as the person in therapy who in this
case happens to be Veronica.
It will also be a wise undertaking to consider input from other professionals, for instance,
psychiatrist, or even primary care physician. It would then be proper to have a proper and
thorough assessment of the information gathered from Veronica as the means to diagnose the
root cause of the problem hence helping in determining the goals or what to focus on as far as
recovery from the trauma is concerned. It would be essential to state the goal in the positive
terms and this means never taking the goals for granted. It is worth noting that clear goal setting
is of great s...
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