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Old Mar 03, 2007, 12:00 AM
Hopefull Hopefull is offline
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Yes.
Problem: Self-esteem
Long-term goal: Overall self-confidence
Short-term objective: Develop sense of self as competent
Be able to speak up for self more easily
Work toward professional identity (I am studying to be an addiction counselor and am afraid that I can't due to a lack of social skills and social anxiety at work)

Problem: Stress management
Long-term goal: Build skills to cope with normal stress (insult with that word normal in there)
Short-term objective: Work on having more positive expectations (brain transfusion might be easier)
Deal with situations up front or as they come up
Feel greater control over crying by talking with trusted freinds

I came up with most of this except T added "work on having more positive expectation" and "feel greater control over crying by talking with trusted friends." She re-phrased some of the stuff under self-esteem. I don't know if she has a length of time estimate. I doubt that she does because I picked rather long-term goals. I assume that my insurance has a copy of this. My T looks at the goals every session to see if it is time to review them. I don't know what the Pdoc thinks of them because they pre-date my relationship with him.
At times, I share with her about them. Other times, I toss them aside for some sessions. I think of a "treatment plan" as just a way to explain what it is that I want out of the relationship. I hope it will also help me to recognize when to end the relationship. My previous T wrote my two goals of self-esteem and stress management in a really academic way and made them have no meaning anymore. I started out with my current T with the crap goals and changed them when I had done enough reading and work to figure what I felt that I most needed to stop feeling depressed and prevent a re-occurence. I have also worked some on resolving some childhood isssues and guilt to do with a relative's death in sessions. Well, there you have a "treatment plan." I think her version has a question about obsticles to learning which I didn't feel comfortable reading near where I sign when ever we review the goals. The last time, I wrote up my own little thing on whether or not I had made progress on each of the objectives.
PS. I will be learning how to write "treatment plans" later this semester in school. I'd joke that I already almost wrote one myself. I mean I wrote most of it. She just quickly wrote it while I was rambling the list of goals and objectives.