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CI 560 – Treatment Planning

COURSE INFORMATION

This course provides an introduction to the theories and practice of treatment planning.  Treatment planning helps guide the therapist and client to identify and measure progress as the client recovers from crisis and traumatic events. Students will examine the role and benefits of treatment planning in the clinical setting. The major emphasis of this course is on learning methodologies for conducting comprehensive patient assessments, using assessment information to develop individual treatment plans, and strategies for treatment plan evaluations and ongoing revisions. Legal issues in documentation are also examined. Course Code= CI 560. Contact hours of education = 40.

Prerequisites: must have completed CI 500, CI 510, CI 520, CI 540, SM 530, and SM 550, before enrolling in this course.

Target Audience: Nurses, Physicians, Psychiatrists, Psychologist, Social Work Professionals, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Mental Health Specialists, School Counselors, Grief Professionals, Trauma Specialists, Crisis Interventionists, Stress Management Consultants, Thanatologists, Pastoral Counselors, Mental Health Care Coaches, Funeral Directors, Ordained Clergy, Rehabilitation Specialists, Substance Abuse Counselors, Spiritual Counselors, other Licensed Health Care Professionals.

Instructor/Course Author:  Thomas Schear, Ph.D

Link to Resume

TIME FRAME: You are allotted two years from the date of enrollment, to complete this course. There are no set time-frames, other than the two year allotted time. If you do not complete the course within the two-year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an “incomplete” will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the course after this two-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again.

TEXTBOOKS: There are three (3) required textbooks for the course:

Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward Paperback. (1994) by James O. Prochaska, John Norcross, Carlo DiClemente. Quill.

  • ISBN-10: 038072572X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0380725724

Link to Purchase on Amazon.com: click here

Essentials of Treatment Planning 2nd ed. (2019) By Mark Maruish. Wiley.

  • ISBN-10: 1119533309
  • ISBN-13: 978-1119533306

Link to Purchase on Amazon.com: click here

Changing to Thrive: Using the Stages of Change to Overcome the Top Threats to Your Health and Happiness (2016), by James O. Prochaska and Janice M. Prochaska. Hazelden Publishing.

  • ISBN-10: 1616496290
  • ISBN-13: 978-1616496296

Link to Purchase on Amazon.com: click here

Recommended reading:

The Crisis Counseling and Traumatic Events Treatment Planner, with DSM-5 Updates, 2nd Edition (2014). Wiley.

  • ISBN-10: 1119063159
  • ISBN-13: 978-1119063155

Link to Purchase on Amazon.com: click here

 

GRADING:  You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 40 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by the American Academy of Grief Counseling and options for completing additional course work to achieve a passing score will be presented.

Course Refund & AIHCP Policies: access here

BOARD APPROVALS: 

The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is an Approved Provider for Continuing Education by the South Carolina Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists licensing board, Provider # 4637. Access information

The American Institute of Health Care Professionals (The Provider) is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider number # CEP 15595 for 40 Contact Hours.

This course, which is approved by the Florida State Board Of Nursing (CE Provider # 50-11975) also has the following Board of Nursing Approvals, for 40 contact hours of CE

The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Arkansas Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Georgia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the South Carolina Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Professional Registered Nurses. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the New Mexico Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.

ONLINE CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND TOOLS

* Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as “open book” tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.

* Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page “Student Resource Center.” The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.

* Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.

* Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor’s online resume/biography, as well as your instructor’s specific contact information.

* Additional Learning Materials: some faculty have prepared additional “readings” and /or brief lecture notes to enhance your experience. All of these are available in the online classrooms.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES:  Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

  • Gain a greater understanding of how people change their behavior(s).
  • Gain a greater understanding of the Stage of Change as they apply to self-changers as well as those who pursue counseling services.
  • Understand the dynamics of precontemplators in the change process.
  • Understand how people contemplate change and how a counselor can best help them through the process.
  • Understand how people prepare to make changes in their lives and how a counselor can best help them through the process.
  • Understand how a person who is changing their behaviors can act and the various details they must consider as they do.
  • How one maintains the changes they have made are also carefully considered.
  • Learning the importance of treatment planning and coupling that with the Stages of Change are examined.
  • The value and consideration of various forms of testing are revised.
  • We examine how to identify the client’s issues and then, in partnership with the client, develop an individualized treatment plan.
  • Developing treatment planning in terms of goals, objectives, timeframe of treatment, measuring achievement, are examined.