1. CASE PLANNING AND SERVICE ARRAY

2. Case Plan “Roadmap”
The case plan should be driven by the identified needs of the family and not by the readily available resources of the Agency and community.
The case plan must be directly and specifically related to the reasons the child cannot live at home safely.

3. Family Development Theory
Cognitive-behavioral theory
Solution focused theory
Integrated Theory from:
Family Development Theory
(Carter and McGoldrick, 1999)
The Lens of Family Development
The Path to Family Engagement
The Key to Accurate Family Assessment
The Focus of a Case Plan that will Work
Family Development Principles
Families face common challenges
Stages
EDLEs
Casework needs to focus on everyday life challenges
Locate specific skills to those everyday life challenges
What was the family trying to accomplish?
What has worked well in the past?
What will the family need to change?
What will individuals need to do in order to make that happen?
Cognitive Behavior Theory (Relapse Prev.Therapy)
(Marlatt & Gordon, 1985, Pithers, 1990, Beck, 1993)
SBC teaches case managers how to manage treatment providers so they focus on the critical skills needed to manage individual and family high risk behavior, as well as how to measure, document and celebrate the mastery of those skills (risk reduction is behaviorally documented vs. trusting the opinion of providers).
Solution Focused Theory
(Berg, 1994, DeShazer, 1988)
Interviewing skills that lead to collaboration
Defining the problem in a way that leads to solutions
Exceptions to the problems
Solution Based Casework

4. Family system issues Presenting issue Individual issues
How will we organize information?
Family Level
What are the family’s developmental needs?
What specific task is giving them problems?
What is their interaction around the task?
Becomes Family Level Objective (FLO)
Individual Level
Who loses control when it doesn’t work?
What are their patterns for loss of control?
What specific prevention skills are needed?
Becomes Individual Level Objective (ILO)
Case Scenario
Physical abuse of out of control teenager

5. Characteristics of a Good Case Plan
SIMPLICITY
SPECIFICITY
ACCOUNTABILITY
RELATIVITY
ACHIEVABILITY
Simple: Use plain, direct language
Specific: Be explicit about the desired changes in attitudes, belief, skills, and behavior. How will progress and success be measured? Behaviorally-specific objectives.
Accountable: Steps and goals should identify who, what and when, both with regard to the tasks for the social worker to complete and those required of the parent(s)
Relative: Steps and goals / objectives should directly relate to the reasons underlying removal and court involvement
Achievable: Balance thoroughness with achievability. Overwhelming clients doesn’t help families.
*Reduce # of providers by choosing those that can work on more than one objective whenever possible
*Limit separate assessments to situations where case specific questions must be answered before referral
*Confront any barriers/limitations to success

6. Draft a plan to modify your behavior to better implement
the QIC practice model.

7. Compare your plan with a partner. What do you notice?

8. What characteristics or
qualities make for a good plan?

9. Evaluate Sample Case Plans