Identify Rick’s strengths, and show how these strengths will help him meet the
goals.
Rick’s strengths:
Explain how these will help him meet the goals:

Use the above vignette to develop a detailed treatment plan for the client. You are a case manager in an alternative school for teenagers who have behavioral and emotional problems, and Rick is referred to you. Rick’s mother is addicted to cocaine, and his father is not in the picture. Only recently Rick was moved to his grandmother’s home. His grandmother seems to be very intent on helping Rick. She works as a domestic in a large office building downtown and is not home before 9:00 p.m. You are concerned that Rick is home alone after school, and you are also concerned about his getting his homework done. In addition, Rick has been having problems with other teens: hitting and punching, name-calling, and cutting up in class, all behaviors that need to be curbed if Rick is going to get anything out of the alternative school.