Hypothetical Working Agreement

Hypothetical Working Agreement

Introduction

As mentioned by Murphy & Dillon (2003) any working agreement should have four essential parts; assessment, prioritizing, contracting, evaluation. By using these steps, a clinician can understand the client problem and his expectations. At the same time the clinician can set a time frame in which he or she will expect the client to overcome the problem and achieve its expectations. Clinician and client will sign a written agreement that will contain everything both agree on, and that will hold both responsible to comply with the agreement.

Discussion

Assessment

As mentioned by Herman & Knuth (1991) assessment is used by clinicians to better understand the problem that the client may have and to look for the cause of the problem so that they can easily overcome it. When clinicians make an assessment, they are able to find how the client thinks about the problem and his expectation of overcoming it. The clinician will be able to analyze the stay of mind, emotional state, and how self aware is the client of the problem itself.

Goal Setting

According to the Office of Human Resource SC, after setting any goals they will need to be prioritized. By doing this there are some considerations that need to be made which include need, urgency, time, impact, and resources available to achieve the goals. When analyzing the need of a goal, individual must know if it is something they have to do, they might do, or simply they would like to do. When analyzing the resources available, individuals will be looking at what they have to use to accomplish the goal; time, money people and even places that they can get help from. (Office of Human Resource SC, n.d.).

Contracting

According to Murphy & Dillon (2003) when clinicians make an assessment they will make a written agreement. In that written agreement the clinician, client and any other party involved, agree upon how to proceed with the client treatments, the length of the treatment, responsibilities of everyone, and even the outcome of the treatment itself. When the contract is completed, it will have the list of goals and expectation of the clinician and the client.

Evaluation

As mentioned by Murphy & Dillon (2003) evaluation is an outgoing process that is used by clinicians after each meeting with the client. In the process of evaluation, meetings of the clinician and client are recorded. The clinician will use the information to ...