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.
- This is not the first meeting so assume that you have gathered the basic history and you have a basic idea of what the problems are.
- Note the Advice about Role Playing
- Make use of what you have learned about: