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Treatment in the clinical context is any form of action which is taken in order to improve a physical or mental disorder.
Prior to treatment
Treatment is preceded by the processes of accepting the person via treatment pathways, collecting information as to their disorder, perhaps developing a diagnoses of case formulation and from this negotiating the course of treatment with the client or patient
- Court referrals
- Client transfer
- Client treatment matching
- Medical records
- Patient history
- Treatment planning
Characteristics of treatment
Types of treatment
Psychologists are interested in a broad range of treatment approaches. These would include:
- Alternative medicine
- Behavior modification
- Bibliotherapy
- Cognitive techniques
- Counseling
- Creative arts therapy
- Crisis intervention
- Cross cultural treatment
- Life sustaining treatment
- Medical treatment (general)
- Milieu therapy
- Movement therapy
- Pain management
- Personal therapy
- Physical treatment methods
- Preventative medicine
- Psychotherapeutic techniques
- Psychiatry
- Psychoeducation
- Psychosocial readjustment
- Psychotherapy
- Relaxation therapy
- Self help techniques
- Sex therapy
- Stress management
- Social casework
- Sociotherapy
- Speech therapy
- Twelve step programs
Issues in treatment
- Advance directives
- Caregivers
- Client rights
- Euthanasia
- Involuntary treatment
- Patient abuse
- Prescribing drugs
- Prevention
- Physical restraint
- Prognosis
- Relapse prevention
- Side effects
- Spontaneous remission
- Therapuetic alliance
- Treatment compliance
- Treatment duration
- Treatment effectiveness evaluation
- Treatment outcomes
- Treatment planning
- Treatment resistant disorders
- Treatment termination
- Treatment witholding
Treatment context
- Aftercare
- Early intervention
- Outpatient treatment
- Partial hospitalization
- Posttreatment followup
- Rehabilitation
- Therapeutic social clubs
- Treatment facilities
Services providing treatment
Service issues
- Case management
- Cost containment
- Health care costs
- Health care delivery
- Medical records
- Quality of care
- Treatment guidelines