Clinical Reasoning Worksheet
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HappierTherapy
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The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
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What is the theory behind this Clinical Reasoning Worksheet?
Clinical reasoning is defined as a form of reasoning that is practice-based and requires the background of research-based information about any general case. It involves finding out the relevance of general and scientific knowledge to the case and how to apply it to a particular case. It is important to understand the presenting problem, plan interventions and evaluate outcomes on the basis of these interventions.
How will this worksheet help you?
This worksheet can help professionals and clinicians in improving their clinical reasoning. It has all the essential questions that we need to answer when we are working with the clinical population and that are required to evaluate the actual and potential problems of anyone seeking psychological help. Clinicians can plan effective interventions after understanding the problem of the client and improving the quality of the health care process.
How to use this worksheet?
This worksheet needs to be completed when you are well-rested because it requires detailed information about your clients and their problems. By using the available data in the form of reports or history, you can complete this worksheet for any case you want to work on. This also requires finding some effective strategies and interventions pertaining to presenting problem. Further, you can discuss this worksheet with your supervisor to make your clinical reasoning more accurate.
