Family Therapy Treatment Plan

Treatment plans is essential for performing tasks that are part in using clinical services in assisting clients. In treatment planning, the counselor should form a working relationship with the client to greatly improve the client’s treatment outcome. Treatment outcomes are improved when the counselor has a relationship with the client to conduct an interview (Gehart, 2016). In this interview, the counselor learns to work with the client’s perceptions of the problems and issues. The client feels as if they benefit because they feel motivated and support to pursue their goals (Gehart, 2016). The therapist needs to assess individual, family, and social dynamics of the family (Gehart, 2016).

The first part of the treatment plan is the initial

The working phase of treatment is to monitor the quality of the relationship between the client and counselor (Gehart, 2016). This is when the therapist would come up with goals and interventions to create or decrease the personal/relational dynamic to reduce the symptom that the client is displaying (Gehart, 2016). The therapist can develop goals to see what works in the therapeutic relationship (Gehart, 2016).

The third phase of treatment is the closing phase. The Closing phase is when the therapist makes themselves unnecessary in the client’s lives (Gehart, 2016). The therapists would work with client’s to develop plans to identify what the client did to make the changes that the client has decided to make, how the client has maintained their success, and how they will handle the next set of challenges in their lives (Gehart, 2016). The purpose is to encourage the clients would have a better handle on their problems that will continue to arise in their lives (Gehart, 2016).

A strategy in therapy would

Some interventions would be to: 1. To encourage the client to help them to feel empowered that they can handle all situations in their life. 2. To understand the client’s point of view.

In the working phase of the treatment plan (depending on how they do in the initial phase of treatment): Increase their personal dynamic by reducing the discouragement in their life. Some goals are: understand what they have done in the past, and create some new ways of handling their discouragements. 2. Create some positive points in the client’s mind so that the client can learn to decide to have a positive reaction to a negative situation in their life. An outcome rating scale would be another way to evaluate a client progress. The four levels of the rating scale are: Individually (Personal well-being); Interpersonally (Family, close relationships); Socially (work, school, friendships); and overall (general sense of well-being) (Gehart, 2016). Some questions that the therapist would ask are: “How are you doing?” “How are things going in your life?” “How is your family doing?” (Gehart, 2016). When progress is in not being made in