This is a set of questions that workers might find helpful in identifying where they are in the therapeutic journey with a particular young person.
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Phases of AMBIT work
|, but while these may provide a map for clarifying "where are we?" they do not necessarily (or perhaps ever!) unfold in a routinely sequenced Intervention timeline. Indeed, if they were a rigid, timetabled, programme, they would likely be perceived as Non-contingent by the client.
So the therapeutic journey may pass back and forth between phases - perhaps returning to the INITIAL PHASE from the INTERVENTION PHASE when a new challenge or area of work presents itself. What is very clear in Active Planning is that the worker should know were he or she IS on this map so that planning can be applied for that stage, and momentum be maintained towards longer term goals and aims.
See also material on considering your client's Relationship to help, which will help in mentalizing their motivational state and therapeutic engagement.