Your treatment plan should:

1. include either (a) a concise paragraph on the problem your "client" is facing as well as situations in which it occurs and exceptions to this or (b) have your psychosocial history attached;

2. attach your summary of the research on the problem and on psychosocial techniques used to address it. This summary should include (a) four references cited in your text (one can be a textbook), and (b) be no longer than two double-spaced pages;

3. a treatment plan. This should include a reasonable plan for dealing with the client's problem. It should be:

   (a) based in the literature that you reviewed;

   (b) make sense in terms of the psychosocial history that you developed (if you used it to develop your ideas);

   (c) address at least two problems;

   and (d) be no more than 2 pages single spaced.

A good treatment plan:

• is clear, concise and well-organized;

• builds on what you know about "the problem," the person, and the person's strengths and weaknesses;

• has a clear relationship between the problem, goal, and methods for change;

• includes behaviors that the client can control and change. These behaviors are stated specifically, and in the positive (what will be done, rather than what will not be done).

Reduce your plan to writing... The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. -- Napoleon Hill

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