Treatment Plan Overviews Conduct Issues

Part of our behavioral health resources, this is a broad overview of our treatment plan for the treatment of conduct issues. Age- and gender-specific resources are available for adults and juveniles (males and females). For more information, feel free to contact us or fill out our phone consultation form.

• Major Goals
• 1. Improve self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-esteem
• 2. Decrease defensiveness
• 3. Improve insight
• 4. Improve coping
• 5. Develop appropriate communication skills and social skills
• 6. Identify and address uncomfortable feelings
• 7. Improve aspects of family dynamics
• 8. Improve impulse control
• 9. Improve problem solving
• See Also

Major Goals

1. Improve self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-esteem

Objectives/treatment focus:

• Understand contributing factors to own low self-esteem
• Understand relationship between cognitive distortions and low self-esteem
• Address issues of negative self-talk

2. Decrease defensiveness

Objectives/treatment focus:

• Identify and address issues of denial and trust
• Increase awareness of defensive behavior, by providing examples and encouraging resident to identify similar behaviors in his life
• Address issues of defensiveness and counter-productive behavior in dealing with authority figures

3. Improve insight

Objectives/treatment focus:

• Increase understanding of relationship between underlying vulnerability, triggers, feelings, thoughts, choices or behaviors
• Increase understanding of pattern or “cycle” of problem behaviors

4. Improve coping

Objectives/treatment focus:

• Keep life in “balance” through effective cognitive coping
• Use effective coping skills to reduce impulsive behavior, and to provide enough time to evaluate options before acting

5. Develop appropriate communication skills and social skills

Objectives/treatment focus:

• Encourage appropriate expression of thoughts and feelings
• Teach assertive communication skills; and assertive body language
• Provide vignettes or situations to learn appropriate responses
• Role model and practice communication responses (verbal and non-verbal) for various situations and circumstances

6. Identify and address uncomfortable feelings

Objectives/treatment focus:

• Use new vocabulary to support expression of thoughts and feelings
• Identify specific feelings and issues more appropriate ways of coping with them
• Better management of anger Reduce potential for violence

7. Improve aspects of family dynamics

Objectives/treatment focus:

• Exploration and identification of family roles and boundaries issues.

8. Improve impulse control

Counselor activity.

9. Improve problem solving

Objectives/treatment focus:

• Identify personal needs and goals, and problem solve how to reach goals
• Encourage individual goal setting, and support efforts towards those goals
• Support adoption of new (positive) values
• Practice problem solving behavior and use of new coping skills
• Identify areas of concern and practice appropriate new responses

See Also

The following pages may also be helpful:

Behavioral Health and Dual Diagnosis — specific behavioral health and dual diagnosis treatment planning and program resources for more than 20 DSM-IV diagnoses and issues, including conduct issues disorders, depression, PTSD, ADHD, etc. Behavioral health resources include counselors' tools, model treatment plans, and client workbooks. [more]

Phone Consultation Form — fill out this form if you are interested in purchasing our treatment programs. [more]