Treatment Planning & Goal Setting Flashcards
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Which of the following BEST describes the role of psychoeducation at the treatment planning stage?
Answer: It helps clients understand the CBT model and rationale, increasing goal commitment
Early psychoeducation about the CBT model increases client buy-in and strengthens commitment to collaboratively set treatment goals.
A client's treatment goal is: 'Reduce OCD compulsions from 4 hours/day to under 30 minutes/day within 12 weeks.' This goal is best characterized as:
Answer: Specific, measurable, and time-bound
The goal specifies the behavior, quantifies baseline and target, and includes a clear timeframe, meeting SMART criteria.
Safety planning in CBT treatment planning is MOST critical when:
Answer: The client presents with suicidal ideation or self-harm behaviors
Suicidal ideation or self-harm requires a safety plan as the first treatment priority before other CBT goals are addressed.
When using a case conceptualization to guide the treatment plan, the 'maintaining factors' section is important because it:
Answer: Identifies the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms keeping the problem active
Maintaining factors (e.g., avoidance, safety behaviors, rumination) are the proximal targets of CBT interventions.
A therapist revises a client's treatment plan after session 6 because progress is stalled. This reflects which core CBT principle?
Answer: Empirical evaluation and plan adjustment based on outcome data
CBT's scientist-practitioner model requires ongoing monitoring of outcome data and willingness to revise the plan when progress is insufficient.
Which of the following is an example of a PROCESS goal in a CBT treatment plan?
Answer: Client will learn to identify cognitive distortions by session 4
Process goals target skill acquisition or within-therapy milestones (e.g., identifying distortions), while outcome goals target symptom reduction.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques are sometimes integrated into the CBT treatment planning phase primarily to:
Answer: Resolve ambivalence and enhance readiness for change
MI strategies like decisional balancing and exploring change talk reduce ambivalence and increase commitment to CBT goals.