Person-Centered Treatment Planning: Behavioral Health Best Practices

Whether you’re a therapist in private practice or a community-based clinician, treatment planning is likely an important core function that drives your service delivery. Done well, it has the power to transform your care and the recovery of those you serve. Done poorly, and it can feel like a frustrating paperwork requirement, resulting in disorganized treatment, disengaged clients, and increased legal or financial risk.

Using a person-centered approach to care, this training will simplify the treatment planning process and teach you best practices that are common across the mental health and substance use field. You’ll learn how to empower clients to be the driver of their care while still meeting the regulatory requirements of your practice setting.

Attendees in this live interactive web training will practice writing person-centered goals, objectives, and interventions and audit a comprehensive treatment plan.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Integrate client, provider, and payor expectations into a comprehensive person-centered treatment plan

  2. Compose goals that reflect desired long-term changes, and SMART objectives that measure their progress

  3. Create intervention statements that organize care and support goal/objective accomplishment

Target Audience:

Mental health and substance use practitioners including social workers, counselors, psychotherapists, case managers, clinical supervisors, and quality improvement staff

  • Introduction (10 minutes)

    • Learning objectives, lesson agenda

    • Course expectations/interactivity

    Lesson 1: Treatment Planning Best Practices (40 minutes)

    • Purpose of treatment planning

    • Person-centered care

    • Treatment plan elements

    • Client, provider, and payor expectations

    • Medical Necessity

    • Treatment planning in different settings

    Lesson 2: Goals (40 minutes)

    • Definitions and criteria

    • Goal examples

    • Strengths

    • Barriers and functional impairments

    • Exercise: Writing goals

    Break (10 minutes)

    Lesson 3: Objectives (40 minutes)

    • Definitions and criteria

    • SMART acronym

    • Objective examples

    • Exercise: Writing objectives

    Lesson 4: Interventions (25 minutes)

    • Definitions and criteria

    • Who, what, when, & why

    • Natural support interventions

    • Intervention examples

    • Exercise: Writing interventions

    Lesson 5: Putting it together (20 minutes)

    • Exercise: Group feedback

    Course Summary (10 minutes)

Instructor: David Shapiro, LICSW

CE Credits: 3

Person-Centered Treatment Planning: Behavioral Health Best Practices, Course #4553, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Shapiro Training & Consulting as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 11/29/2022 - 11/29/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 3 Clinical continuing education credits.

States that accept ASWB ACE approved continuing education.