Combining Low income Individuals with Therapy
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This is a new client who has many life stressors and is feeling overwhelmed. You and your clients are from a relatively poor rural community and there are not many resources available to help your clients. The economy is bad in your area, both for clients and professionals like yourself.
As a therapist, how can you figure where to start when she has so many different issues to deal with?
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This solution of 499 words develops a treatment strategy that helps low income individuals in therapy. Alternative measures of stress reduction are also discussed in specific regard to low income options.
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Whenever a client presents themselves with many life stressors and a feeling of being overwhelmed it is extremely important to determine a way for the client to essentially diffuse the high level of stress. The fact that the client is from a relatively poor rural community without many resources does not necessarily mean that the client will not be able to receive treatment. When attempting to determine a starting point for therapy, it is extremely important to make sure that whatever treatment plan is determined by the therapist can realistically be executed. Essentially, this means that the treatment plan should be practical, and even with limited resources, the client should be able to develop coping strategies that can ...
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