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Chapter 6.What Is a Treatment Plan?

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Introduction | Definition | Opposing Camps | The Prototype Plan | Top Down Versus Bottom Up | Planning Foundations | Examples of Planning | From Treatment Plan to Treatment Contract | Time Factors in the Treatment Plan | Therapy Guidelines | Treatment Plan Problems | Clinical Example: Sally and Julia

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You met your new patient, established a working relationship, and explored the chief complaint, the present illness, and as much of the history as you could cover in the initial interview. You marshaled the data to form one or more hypotheses. You put together a reasonable formulation that explains the why and the how of the patient’s problems. Now you can take the result of all this work and organize it into a roadmap of the therapy to come. What will be the treatment outcome and how will that be accomplished?

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