Narrative Therapy Psychotherapy
Once the patient was admitted a treatment plan was established. When working with a client we make sure our interventions are suitable with the patient’s diagnosis and meet the needs of the patient. He is continuously evaluated every other Wednesday by Amedisys case team. By far the most important part of the treatment plan is keeping the patient comfortable and pain. Making adjustments to medication as needed. Secondly it’s extremely important that we prevent his caregiver from have burn out. We assist her with care, but she does majority of the care. As a social worker in the agency it’s important to remind her about the respite care, when we notice she seems to be getting burnt out or when she informs us she is getting burnt out. Monitoring
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We don’t want to do a disservice to our patient. To solve the issue at hand, the doctor has decided to change his pain medication. The plan is to change the pain medication to a pill that is not used for recreational by people. The third thing that I as a social worker will need to address his diagnosis of mild Neurocognitive Disorder with possible Alzheimer’s. The social worker decided to use Narrative Therapy with this specific patient. Narrative Therapy is a form of psychotherapy . Through Narrative Therapy we hope to improve the patient’s well-being and mental health, through a review of events throughout their life. Narrative Therapy allows the client to reflect back over his or her life, and identify key events and their effects (About Narrative Therapy, n.d.). Narrative Therapy was begun developing in the 1970s and the 1980s. The therapy was created by Michael White and David Epston social workers from New Zealand (White & Epston, 1990) . Facilitating the life review, helps understand the patient’s views and allow the patient to reflect over the past and future (About Narrative Therapy, n.d.). These reflections allow clients to become at peace with specific events, and allow them to learn more about themselves (About Narrative Therapy,
We don’t want to do a disservice to our patient. To solve the issue at hand, the doctor has decided to change his pain medication. The plan is to change the pain medication to a pill that is not used for recreational by people. The third thing that I as a social worker will need to address his diagnosis of mild Neurocognitive Disorder with possible Alzheimer’s. The social worker decided to use Narrative Therapy with this specific patient. Narrative Therapy is a form of psychotherapy . Through Narrative Therapy we hope to improve the patient’s well-being and mental health, through a review of events throughout their life. Narrative Therapy allows the client to reflect back over his or her life, and identify key events and their effects (About Narrative Therapy, n.d.). Narrative Therapy was begun developing in the 1970s and the 1980s. The therapy was created by Michael White and David Epston social workers from New Zealand (White & Epston, 1990) . Facilitating the life review, helps understand the patient’s views and allow the patient to reflect over the past and future (About Narrative Therapy, n.d.). These reflections allow clients to become at peace with specific events, and allow them to learn more about themselves (About Narrative Therapy,