Counseling Setting: Community Assessment Treatment Services (CATS) is a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Provider. The Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Center offer men and women residential and outpatient recovery services. CATS provide Outpatient and Intensive Outpatient Treatment, Residential Short, and Long -Term Treatment, Outpatient Vivitrol. I am currently assigned to the Men’s Residential Treatment Program that provides short and long term residential treatment. Most of the clients have been recently released from prison or jail and must complete residential substance abuse treatment prior to their release into society. The population is composed of 60% Caucasians, 25% African-Americans (Blacks) and 15% Hispanics ranging in …show more content…
Davis (Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): how does CBT work?", n.d.) noted that CBT is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on how beliefs, thoughts and attitudes impact your behaviors and feelings. CBT is utilized to assist the clients in challenging the validity of the faulty thinking against reality (Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): how does CBT work?,” n.d.). CBT has been proven effective for treating many mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse (Grohol, 2009). I have a theoretical orientation towards solution-focused brief therapy, developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg (Corey, 2013). Solution-focused therapy assumes that people are competent and can make solutions to enhance their lives and that they can builds on positive expectations that change is possible ("Solution-focused brief therapy," 2002). The clients that I work with have continued to function in spite of being incarcerated, having mental health, and substance abuse issues. The client’s often have faulty criminal thinking and have used self-medication that has caused them to get into their current situation which has resulted in their incarceration. If the clinician can assist the client in changing their thinking to positive non-criminal behavior the clients can move towards a better healthier