The agency I am currently interning for is a private for profit outpatient clinic which I will call Atlas Counseling Services. Atlas offers individual, couple, family and group therapy and medication management with psychiatrists and nurse practitioners. Atlas counseling is in Franklin, Mass. My role within the organization includes being a group facilitator for a substance recovery group which meets once a week and I am also a therapist for adults and children. The population generally served is children and adults with a variety of diagnosis. Problems generally served include diagnoses such as substance use disorders, stress-related issues, depression and anxiety disorders, bipolar and psychotic disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder,
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Program goals are that clients will identify and learn coping skills to manage their substance use or mental health disorder. Objectives include meeting with their therapist and collaboratively complete an assessment which includes the client’s individual goals while in therapy. Clients must attend weekly/bi weekly sessions to learn positive coping skills to address mental health issues and substance use. Clients may be referred to psychopharmacology appointments if needed. If medicine management is part of the treatment plan, then it is expected that the client will take their medications as prescribed while also meeting with their …show more content…
A streamlined process would reduce the amount of time a potential client remains on the waitlist. A shortened waitlist would also align with the company’s mission statement of easy access to a comprehensive range of behavioral health services for all ages. The longer a client stays on a waitlist the likelihood of them coming in for services declines steadily (Stern & Brown, 1994). Also, if a client is assigned a therapist who specializes in their diagnosis there will be fewer transfers of clients among therapists. Due to the more appropriate fit the client is more likely to attend his weekly sessions. According to Keelan (2016), achieving success in therapy is highly related to the approach the therapist uses and if it is a fit for the client. The client can usually tell within the first two
Program goals are that clients will identify and learn coping skills to manage their substance use or mental health disorder. Objectives include meeting with their therapist and collaboratively complete an assessment which includes the client’s individual goals while in therapy. Clients must attend weekly/bi weekly sessions to learn positive coping skills to address mental health issues and substance use. Clients may be referred to psychopharmacology appointments if needed. If medicine management is part of the treatment plan, then it is expected that the client will take their medications as prescribed while also meeting with their …show more content…
A streamlined process would reduce the amount of time a potential client remains on the waitlist. A shortened waitlist would also align with the company’s mission statement of easy access to a comprehensive range of behavioral health services for all ages. The longer a client stays on a waitlist the likelihood of them coming in for services declines steadily (Stern & Brown, 1994). Also, if a client is assigned a therapist who specializes in their diagnosis there will be fewer transfers of clients among therapists. Due to the more appropriate fit the client is more likely to attend his weekly sessions. According to Keelan (2016), achieving success in therapy is highly related to the approach the therapist uses and if it is a fit for the client. The client can usually tell within the first two