Conceptualization gives direction to both assessment and treatment decision-making. It identifies developmental, triggering and sustaining factors that contribute to maladaptive behaviors and adjustment difficulties , that reduce quality of life. Conceptualization provides information about the developmental, familial, contextual risk and protective factors. It highlights cultural, ethnic and gender-specific risk and protective factors . Conceptualization also identifies individual, social and cultural strengths of the client and evidence of resilience that can be combined into the treatment-decision making. It also provides a means to collaboratively form short-term, and long term goals and explains how they can be achieved. Conceptualization identifies individual, social, and systemic barriers that may interfere with and challenge the client’s treatment effectiveness. It provides a way to evaluate the client’s progress on a regular basis and a plan can be formed to determine how each of the client’s objectives need to be altered in a developmentally, culturally, ethnically and racially sensitive way. Conceptualization helps to keep the client aware and enables effective communication and organization between both therapist
Conceptualization gives direction to both assessment and treatment decision-making. It identifies developmental, triggering and sustaining factors that contribute to maladaptive behaviors and adjustment difficulties , that reduce quality of life. Conceptualization provides information about the developmental, familial, contextual risk and protective factors. It highlights cultural, ethnic and gender-specific risk and protective factors . Conceptualization also identifies individual, social and cultural strengths of the client and evidence of resilience that can be combined into the treatment-decision making. It also provides a means to collaboratively form short-term, and long term goals and explains how they can be achieved. Conceptualization identifies individual, social, and systemic barriers that may interfere with and challenge the client’s treatment effectiveness. It provides a way to evaluate the client’s progress on a regular basis and a plan can be formed to determine how each of the client’s objectives need to be altered in a developmentally, culturally, ethnically and racially sensitive way. Conceptualization helps to keep the client aware and enables effective communication and organization between both therapist