Active Planning - Exercise - different destinations

10th June 2015

Purpose

This is to help clarify and practice the process of Active Planning and The Therapist's Mentalizing Stance, especially to consider how the worker manages the situation when there are significant differences between their intentions (goals) and those of the young person.

We are focusing on Active Planning and the therapeutic journey and Active Planning: a core process with clients.

Exercise


EITHER (a)

Watch videos of young people discussing their aims/goals from the work - and pause these at the time-point indicated, to allow for team discussion

  • What is going on?
  • What does the therapist need to do to improve things?

Then restart the video to finish it and discuss the BALANCING ACTS required:

  • What worked?
  • What didn't work?
  • What might improve the outcome?



PAUSE VIDEO FOR DISCUSSION AT: 1 minute 39 secs



PAUSE VIDEO FOR DISCUSSION AT: 1 minute 33 secs

Afterthoughts:

In these scenarios there are clear differences between the worker's stated goals and those of the young person. The creation of a Care Plan is not convincingly collaborative, and it is unclear whether the intentions of the worker are understood by the young person... as new information is revealed, the worker begins to be able to re-fashion plans... could they have got there sooner? Are they going too far off their own plans?

OR (b)

Role-play an early therapeutic encounter that involves the beginning of developing a care-plan. Similar to the video clip - there is some (not catastrophic!) divergence between young person and worker's goals.