Because of non-compliance, his reinstatement is denied. However, this writer discussed with the patient about the Apt. Foundation of which the patient is willing to consider to seek admission due to the clinic acceptance of benzodiazepine and affordable weekly fees upon speaking with an admission representative. The patient is aware of the clinic's intake dates and time as he plans to go tomorrow and once this writer received confirmation, this writer will send his record to assist with…
The counselor met with the patient for his scheduled individual session. The patient denies any sub stance use. The patient and I discuss him building a sober support system to help with him maintain his sobriety. The patient said he knew where an AA meeting was in his community the counselor suggest he try that one first. The client is to attend two meeting before our next individual session.…
Jill B is a 49 woman who voluntarily attends an outpatient psychotherapy clinic for assistance in reducing her drinking habits. While trying her best to stay sober at all times, Jill often runs into a number of high-risk situations which puts her at risk for lapses or relapses to occur. One high-risk situation is Jill recently getting divorced for a second time. Experiencing feelings of irritability and fatigue stemming from the loss of her job which is also a high-risk situation.…
During an upcoming quarter, Counselor will encourage Pt. to continue with attend required counseling 1 x per month and share thoughts and feelings when it comes to her sobriety. Counselor will encourage pt. to develop a “fire escape” plan if she deals with temptations and discuss aftercare plan during next quarter ams therapy groups.…
AMS Primary Counselor requested that the patient meet for a brief session before dosing to his personal history and current recovery status. Counselor reminded her that she needs to attend one hour group or individual session for this month. Pt stated that she cant stay today for a session but she agreed to attend group on Friday, 12/30/16 at 10 am. Counselor told her that self-initiated participation in all program activities is the way to get the most out of treatment. Pt. requested a take home request form and discussed what she was working on with previous…
The patient reports that the pervious therapist help her to identify some new skills. She states the previous therapist want her to attend a self help group and she did not feel the need for that and it create a conflict in their relationship. The patient reports she has not use cannabis since last year and her last drink was a month ago. The counselor educated on her on how the use of alcohol and cannabis was a factor and how to move forward and how to start identify relapse triggers and warning signs and symptoms.…
As of now, the client has met the criteria for severe substance use disorder, with behaviors that have put the client at risk of serious physical harm and has presented with signs of withdrawal. The breaking of addiction is seriously taxing work, and the client will need all of their strength and resources dedicated to this task…
The health circumstance I will be managing is stress. Stress is a primarily physical response of the body to any demand for change. These changes could possibly be behavioural, emotional, physical, or a combination of all three. Stress can be caused by many things like a load of school work, not enough sleep, arguments or change. Everyone deals with stress differently, what I find stressful could be different to you.…
Treatment #1 Treatment Method: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (E.M.D.R.) School of Thought/Perspective: Cognitive-Behavioral Application: Phase 1: Evaluate the client’s aptness to therapy and identify potential targets for E.M.D.R. Including but not limited to: distressing memories; current situations that produce emotional distress; similar events from the past. Stress is put on the growth of explicit skills and behaviors that will be required future situations; Goal: for the client to obtain insight into their situation, and have the emotional distress diminish as they begin to adapt their behaviors. Phase 2: Ensure that the client has multiple methods for managing emotional distress; Several of imagery and stress…
Introduction A substance abuse counselor is in place to encourage and support clients who are addicted to alcohol and drugs. When alcohol and drug abuse client come to an agency to receive treatment, as a counselor it’s important that to encourage the client to receive the help to that the client can be rehabilitated. There are four core function of a counselor that will be discussed in this paper is client education, case management, crisis intervention, and referral. Each of these functions allows the counselor to assist the client to help them overcome their addiction.…
The behavioral domain of the client seems to be agitated and distressed with a functioning level that is markedly absent, therefore scoring a marked impairment on the triage assessment. The clients facial expressions are observed to not be relaxed there is a fair amount of crying, her foot is visibly shaking up and down. Clients avoidance materializes to be affiliated with her substance use; a coping mechanism, which looks to display likely coping mechanism that are to exacerbate the crisis situation at this moment as an attempt to release from her truth of living and is a primary behavior; client states, "I can't take being here anymore, I need to use to feel better and it doesn't matter anyway, no one cares". Client is noticed to be speaking…
The chronic alcoholics and addicts remained on my caseload, but a new variety of clients referred due to drunk driving offense, underage drinking, or low level drug offenses lightened the load. This environment also let me expand my skills into program administration and development. I was given the opportunity to develop a women’s specific treatment group and administer a presentencing program for Operating While Intoxicated offenders. I was doing very well for a 24 year…
1. Introduction Work-related stress is a universal problem of current life which has reached all over the world and encountered almost all vocations. It can have detrimental effects on many people’s lives, and there are distinct factors in modern society responsible for. Stress can lead to many consequences such as less self-confidence, worse performance, and even suicide. Being known as detrimental to people's health as well as affect them in many aspects of life, the work-related stress can be considered as a worldwide challenge for workers as wells as for the organizations.…
1.9 DEFINITION OF TERM 1.9.1 Stress management: That refers to the wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's levels of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of improving everyday functioning. 1.9.2 Physiology: From Ancient Greek (physis), meaning "nature, origin", and (-logia), meaning "study of" is the scientific study of the normal function in living systems. A sub-discipline of biology, its focus is in how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. In medicine, a physiologic state is one occurring from normal body function, rather than pathologically, which is centered on the abnormalities…
6. If my friend was experiencing a great deal of stress issues, I would suggest a few things to her. First, I would encourage her to reduce the amount of caffeine, sweets, and fried foods she is consuming. These foods and drinks can trigger and aggravate stress, causing her to be more anxious and compounding the problems. Second, I would suggest for her to drink more water, eat a “rainbow of foods,” and attempt to consume some food every four hours.…