Treatment Planning & Intervention Strategies Flashcards

A BHP is working with a client who demonstrates readiness to change but lacks the skills needed to maintain sobriety. Which intervention best addresses this gap?

Answer: Relapse prevention skills training

Relapse prevention training equips clients who are already motivated with specific coping skills and strategies to handle high-risk situations.

Which of the following describes the primary difference between a treatment goal and a treatment objective?

Answer: Goals are broad, long-term outcomes; objectives are specific, measurable steps toward goals

Treatment goals are broad desired outcomes, while objectives are the specific, measurable, time-limited steps that operationalize how the goal will be achieved.

A BHP notices that a client's treatment plan focuses heavily on medication management without addressing psychosocial stressors. This reflects a deficiency in:

Answer: Biopsychosocial treatment planning

Biopsychosocial treatment planning addresses biological, psychological, and social factors; neglecting psychosocial stressors creates an incomplete plan.

When a client is in the Contemplation stage of the Transtheoretical Model, the most effective clinical approach is to:

Answer: Explore ambivalence and tip the decisional balance toward change

In the Contemplation stage, clients are ambivalent; the clinician's role is to explore and resolve that ambivalence to build readiness for change.

Which of the following is the most appropriate intervention for a client with social anxiety disorder who avoids all social situations?

Answer: Graded in vivo exposure to increasingly challenging social situations

Graded in vivo exposure systematically confronts feared social situations in a hierarchical manner and is the gold-standard behavioral intervention for social anxiety disorder.

A BHP completes an assessment and identifies that a client's primary barrier to treatment engagement is lack of transportation. This is best addressed by:

Answer: Incorporating a case management intervention in the treatment plan

Case management addresses practical social determinants of health — such as transportation — that create barriers to treatment engagement.

In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), the concept of 'psychological flexibility' is best defined as:

Answer: The ability to contact the present moment and pursue valued actions even in the presence of difficult thoughts and feelings

Psychological flexibility in ACT refers to contacting the present moment fully, as a conscious human being, and changing or persisting in behavior when doing so serves valued ends.