Career counseling treatment plan example

Guidelines for Writing a Vocational Treatment Plan

CCMH/540 Version 3

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Guidelines for Writing a Vocational Treatment Plan

Overview

The vocational treatment plan is guided by the assessment. For example, if the assessment were a lack of confidence and a lack of job skills, then the treatment plan would address confidence and job-skill issues.

Goals and interventions must be attainable for the client, given the client's strengths and vulnerabilities. The treatment modality must also reflect the best possible approaches given the client's personality, strengths, and limitations.

The following vocational treatment plan example is what you will be using for your Integrative Paper and Presentation: A Hypothetical Vocational Treatment Plan, due in Week 6. The following are important questions to consider: Is the approach appropriate, given the presented problem and the client's personality and motivation? Does the plan reflect what the client wants to achieve?

Treatment Planning Steps

I. Relationship Building

Describe some key factors you will have to consider and act upon related to your client and relationship building.

II. Assessment: Information Gathering and Exploration

List information you have to obtain from a historical and current environmental situation. Will you need to conduct any specific or more formal career and vocational assessments? Are there any other mental health, social, familial, or other significant factors that need to be considered?

III. Consolidation Process, Decision Making, and Goal Setting

The best way to establish goals is to ask the client, "What do you want to change?" and "What would that change look like?" Together, you can then formulate attainable goals. Remember, goals are outcomes for the client and should be worded accordingly. That is, you would not place the words learn job-interviewing skills under goals. You would place the words under interventions, as it is an intervention for the purpose of obtaining a job.

You will have to set short-term goals and long-term goals. Remember that your goals should be specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic, and timed, or SMART.

· Short-term goals

· Relief of symptoms of anxiety

· Practice job-interviewing skills

· Long-term goals

· Resolution of employment issues

· Improved sense of financial security

IV. Action Planning and Interventions

Interventions are actions taken by the counselor.

Ask yourself what you, the counselor, will be doing in the session to help the client achieve the established goals.

List the actions you will take as a career and vocational counselor to help the client achieve his or her short- and long-term goals.

V. Ethical or Legal Considerations

Identify and note at least one ethical or legal consideration related to your case.

VI. Referral Resources

Include any possible outside referrals that may support or expand the client's progress toward attaining his or her goals.

VII. Follow-Up Plan and Other Supports

Include how, and in what way, you will adequately follow-up during the action plan’s implementation phase.

List any other environmental, social, or family supports that might be needed to support the interventions.

VIII. Termination and Evaluation Plan

Describe your evaluation plan to monitor and record your client’s progress during the course of, and at the end of, the career counseling action plan. Note what considerations need to be examined related to termination and a successful ending to the career counseling action plan