Treatment Stages

Question 1

● Build rapport and identify the client’s reasons for seeking treatment.
● Gather history/complete a biopsychosocial assessment.
● Set goals and create a treatment plan

Associated words
● Joining
● Assessing
● Prioritizing
● Partialization
● Goal setting
● Objectives
● Trust building
● Problem identification
● Treatment planning
● Reason for referral

Answer 1

Beginning/ assessment

Question 2

● This is when you are actively engaging in interventions.
● This is the change oriented part of therapy.

Associated words
● Resistance
● Tasks
● Resolution
● Implementation
● Rehearsal
● Replacing
● Learning, teaching
● Change
● Bette

Answer 2

Middle of treatment

Question 3

-when the client has met agreed upon treatment goals

You will focus on strategies for maintaining progress and can gradually decrease frequency of sessions as you move towards termination.
● Know that anxiety around the termination of services is normal. This alone is not a
reason to add new treatment goals or indefinitely continue treatment.
● A good way to approach a client’s anxiety about treatment ending is to normalize this
experience and then gradually decrease the frequency of therapy. This helps the client
build a sense of competency that they can maintain change without therapy

Associated words
● Reviewing
● Planning
● Anticipatory guidance
● Regressing
● Successful
● Achievement
● Completion
● Maintenance
● Loss

Answer 3

Termination phase