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How to use the Wiley treatment planner
Wiley PracticePlanners help mental health clinicians better treat their clients by providing customizable, evidence-based treatment goals, objectives, and interventions.
Every client is different. Even if you specialize in certain populations or diagnoses, each person you treat has a unique story contributing to their presenting problem. Your education and experience as a therapist can help guide you in setting goals and creating treatment plans for your clients. But sometimes, it helps to have resources on hand to support your therapy process.
Using a treatment planner, such as the Wiley PracticePlanner, can help you provide the best possible care to your clients, expanding your insights on how to set treatment goals and identify appropriate interventions. Keep reading to learn more about how a Wiley treatment planner can support you as a therapist.
What is a Wiley treatment planner?
A Wiley treatment planner, also called a PracticePlanner, is part of a series of books published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The planners help mental health clinicians better treat their clients by providing customizable, evidence-based treatment goals, objectives, and interventions for specific psychological diagnoses. Along with treatment planning, Wiley treatment planners include templates therapists can use for progress notes and homework assignments.
There are several different treatment planners, including ones for adult, adolescent, and child psychotherapy and addiction treatment. Each PracticePlanner is written to align with expectations from third-party and federal payers.
Therapists commonly use Wiley treatment planners to improve their client care and make administrative work, such as documentation, less stressful. “I've had a copy of the Wiley treatment planner in my office bookshelf for six years now and refer to it often,” says Maddie Tong, a licensed therapist and Headway’s senior associate of clinical education. “I feel more confident and comfortable starting with new clients knowing this is available for me to refer to to improve treatment.”
4 benefits of using a Wiley treatment planner
Guides you in setting treatment goals
Clarifying treatment goals is essential for supporting your client through their mental health journey. A treatment planner, Tong says, can help you identify goals and objectives based on your client’s presenting concerns and diagnosis. With clarity on therapy objectives, you can use time with your clients more efficiently. You can also effectively communicate what the client can expect in sessions, building confidence and rapport in the process.
Helps you customize interventions
Along with helping you pinpoint therapy goals for clients, the Wiley treatment planner also provides suggested interventions that can help you reach those milestones. “Particularly in starting out as a therapist, this was extremely helpful to familiarize myself with what interventions and exercises could help me reach certain goals with clients,” she says.
Improves documentation
The administrative side of therapy can be time-consuming. Using a treatment planner can help improve your clinical documentation, promoting organization and compliance. “I feel my notes in general have gotten clearer and more clinically attuned after utilizing the treatment planner,” says Tong.
Tracks client progress
Sometimes clients come to therapy not knowing what “better” or “progress” may look like. And while no healing is linear, Tong says having a robust conversation around treatment, progress, and goals — with the help of a Wiley treatment planner — can set the client up for better success in getting their needs met and finding clarity in what that looks like.
How to use a Wiley treatment planner
Wiley treatment planners were originally (and still are) published as books. But you can also access them online, commonly through electronic health record (EHR) systems. When you know you’ll be working on a treatment plan for a client, it may help to review the planner around a few potential diagnoses or concerns you know the client wants to address.
Though no treatment plan is one-size-fits-all, the treatment planner can be used for ideas on objectives and interventions as well as compliant documentation. It should always be used in tandem with conversations you're having with the client themselves to make sure it fits their needs and desires for treatment. “Treatment planning should be a collaborative process between therapist and client,” says Tong.
Wiley treatment plan example
Here is an example of a Wiley treatment plan addressing a client’s loneliness symptoms.
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