Treatment Planning: Keeping the Community in Mind, presented by Lisa Madsen, MD

What do you do when a patient needs more? What do you recommend when a patient is no longer progressing in weekly psychotherapy? Do you intensify the individual therapy, or do you reach out to the community to expand the treatment team? What intrapsychic and interpersonal factors inform your treatment recommendation in these cases? This presentation will explore these questions and more as we reflect on the decision-making process involved in treatment planning.

A case will be presented to enliven the discussion and illustrate these considerations in a real and applied way. During this case discussion, we will explore multiple potential interventions, including intensifying the individual treatment, addition of medication support, or referral for adjunctive group therapy, coaching, or somatic work. A multitude of perspectives will be considered as we explore the thought process behind how we make these important treatment decisions. Evidently, our interventions will depend on the idiosyncratic dynamics and needs of each individual patient.