Values
Clinical Writing
Difficult Clients
Therapeutic Process
100

•To create and support meaningful relationships for children, adolescents, and families based on their own family goals and core values.

Our Mission Statement

100

Actions taken to improve a situation

Intervention

100

What happened prior to the behavior of concern

Antecedent

100

Initial Phase of relationship establishment

Rapport Building

200

Doing the right thing even when no one is around.

Integrity

200

Specific examples of how you know a client did something.

Evidence

200

The calm person in the middle of crisis.

Solid Object

200

Second Phase of the Therapeutic Process

Skills Building

300

The believe that intelligence and ability are static and cannot be changed. 

Fixed Mindset

300

Provides the focus of treatment

Treatment Plan

300

•created when the method of influence is mismatched with the client’s current ability to accept the manner in which the influence is delivered.

Resistence

300

Successful end to therapeutic services

Optimal Discharge

400

A period of inherent unpredictability in a system.

Chaos

400

A person's biological, social and psychological factors are all intertwined and influence their well-being

Biopsychosocial Model

400

Ask client to use coping skill, ask for help, engage in a less frustrating activity

Prompt Strategy

400

A cooperative working relationship between client and therapist

Therapeutic Alliance

500

A clinician's reactions to a client.

Countertransference

500

The consistent presentation of relevant clinical information throughout all documentation for a client.

What is the Golden Thread

500

Occurs when a person is overwhelmed by events or circumstances and responds with intense fear, horror, and helplessness.

Trauma

500

This happens when the new information cannot fit our current schema, and we must then adjust our schema to fit the information.

Accomodation

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