Treatment Planning and Relapse Prevention

COUN 6202A Week 5 discussion

Treatment Planning and Relapse Prevention

You just completed your first session with your new client, James. James expressed deep resentment toward his family members, who brought him to treatment after a volatile and emotional intervention. In your session, James told you that he does not need help because he does not have a problem. He was angry and suggested that he was thinking of bringing a lawsuit against you and the treatment facility for “false imprisonment.”

When you review your notes, you see that James is suffering the symptoms of withdrawal from his drug of choice, methamphetamine. In addition, you see that James’s health is in jeopardy. He has elevated blood pressure, and he is exhibiting signs of advanced heart disease. You wonder how you can begin helping James.

Like James, some clients enter treatment with problems that they cannot solve by themselves. With an addiction treatment plan, you and a client may take problems that seem to be impossible to solve and turn them into problems that can be solved.

This week, you develop a 12-month addiction treatment plan for Marge, the addictions patient in the Counseling Session media, using a Treatment Plan Template. In addition, you review a portion of a colleague’s addiction treatment plan and provide feedback on his or her approach to addiction treatment planning and relapse prevention.

Note: You will need to complete the Treatment Plan Template for this week’s Assignment before you respond to this week’s Discussion.

Objectives

Students will:

•             Create an addiction treatment plan

•             Analyze proposed addiction treatment plan