ABSTRACT
This chapter describes concepts grounding the development and application of safe and effective intervention plans by a social worker and client jointly. Both of them emphasize identifying the client's strengths, and both address challenges rather than problems. Having collaborated to recognize salient strengths and challenges, social worker and client next formulate an intervention plan. This plan requires goals, observable and measurable objectives, and tasks. Useful when laying out objectives is the formula “Who will do what by when?” The “what” is a specified action required of the client. Action is time-limited, since the objective states it must be achieved “by when.” This chapter includes one worksheet for creating, in a child welfare setting, an individualized service plan; and one worksheet for creating, in the outpatient setting, a treatment plan.
