User talk:Ltesting1694

Everyone seems to be concerned with writing good treatment plans that meet our own sense of personal responsibility and ethical obligations as well as comply with what insurance companies want to see in order to reimburse our clients for services and to continue to provide authorizations for treatment. What better way to improve those skills than by sharing what we are all doing independently? I thought I would start this forum to start collecting treatment plan goals and objectives so that we can all improve together. As a kick off I stumbled across this:

Writing goals and objectives that are measurable and observable generally need to have three components: 1.A measurable verb (the observable action) 2.The important conditions (if any) under which the performance is to occur and 3.The criterion of acceptable performance Goals can be made up of multiple objectives, where the goal is more qualitative and the objectives contain the true guidelines for behavior or thoughts. It is important that many objectives are written in a manner in which the important conditions and criterion are explicit.

If working with a client with depression one of the goals may be; Client will report a decrease in the frequency and severity of depressive symptoms. On it's own this goal is not specific enough for most third party payors. To improve the goal you can add a measure to the goal itself I.e. Client will report a decrease in the frequency and severity of depressive symptoms as indicated by a reduction in her Beck Depression Inventory score from the clinical to a normative range.

Alternatively you can add objectives to quantify the goal. Client will report a decrease in the frequency and severity of depressive symptoms: Client will reduce number of “bad” days from 5 to 2 per week. Client will improve functioning by attending full days of school and one social engagement per week.

Let's see what we can do to help one another with writing clear concise and fair treatment plans!