Throughout Therapy Soup you will find reference to one of the most important ingredients in that “soup”, the mental health treatment plan. This is an introduction to the treatment plan but I’ll also devote several upcoming blog posts to the subject—perhaps not a glamorous subject, but a very important one.
After the evaluation, and the discussion of treatment options, the next therapy session or two will be devoted to the creation of a written treatment plan. It can take up to thirty (30) days to fully develop a complete plan depending on the complexity of the issues you face. In fact, over time, the plan will flex and grow as you do so expect changes after thirty days as well. A treatment plan is a living document—it will need to be referred to, checked in with, updated, and amended by you and your therapist, together.
“A treatment plan is a written plan created by a therapist and patient that is used as a guide to how therapy should ideally proceed in order to address clinical and any other relevant life issues. It is central to effective therapy.”*
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TPG
4:24 pm on
January 29th, 2010Here’s what I hope is a productive idea: Post an actual treatment plan here on your blog — or link us to one on your website! — with all identifying and/or personal information redacted. It would be extremely useful to see empirically what you’re talking about, understanding that all therapists may have their own ways of writing up such plans.
Hi TPG,
That is such a good idea–we’re going to do that in the near future and post it, in segments (it might take a few blog posts), along with explanations of the individual segments (bearing in mind your point that there are legitimate, different ways in which to write them). Thank you for the excellent suggestion–I hope it will be helpful to you.
Richard
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