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Clinical Mental Health Counseling NCMHCE®

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Indirect Client Care

Route the Client

Is Outpatient Enough? · L1

Fundamental concept

Determining what level of care a client needs, routing them there, and making the handoff actually hold.

Read: Level of Care, Referral, and Continuity →

Scenario

A 30-year-old has attended weekly counseling for depression for two months. Her symptoms have not improved. She is attending consistently, doing between-session work, and denies any suicidal ideation. She has never had a medication trial.

Work through each decision, the patient responds to your choices.