Deck 7: Case Planning and Case Management

Question 1

What is meant by assessment-based case planning? Why should case plans be assessment-based?

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Differentiate between goals, tasks, and activities.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

What does it mean to provide strengths-based counseling? Why is it important?

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

What is the risk effect? If the risk effect is occurring, will a program evaluation show that the program as a whole reduced recidivism over time?

Question 5

Which of the Principles of Effective Intervention receives the most attention as we develop case management plans? Why is this the case?

Question 6

What is the value of using the same risk/needs assessments throughout a jurisdiction-using the same assessments for prisons, community-based facilities, probation, and parole?

Question 7

Which of the examples of risk/need factors are most likely to need careful planning to assure continuity of care?

Question 8

Why is it important to encourage clients to collaborate with case managers in the development of a case plan?

Question 9

Discuss the importance of case plans being created collaboratively with the client, rather than simply telling the client the steps he/she should take toward the goal.

Question 10

Case planning involves the case manager using his/her expertise to develop goals for the client based off of risk/need assessment results and to hold the client accountable to those goals

Question 11

Need domains identified by risk/need assessments may require additional assessment before a case plan can be fully developed

Question 12

Programs that reserve intensive services and interventions for high risk clients have better outcomes than those who do not consider risk in their case planning

Question 13

Detailed case plans should be created for all incarcerated individuals regardless of risk level

Question 14

Correctional counselors should reserve the most intensive services and interventions for low risk clients because they are the clients who are most likely to change

Question 15

Seamless service delivery refers to continuity of care in which there is no interruption of service when clients leave an agency and move to another

Question 16

Graduated sanctions are an ineffective method for gaining compliance with people who are incarcerated

Question 17

A decision matrix assists programmatic efforts to match clients to programs by categorizing programs available in the agency and from outside providers by the need, the severity of the need, and the risk level of the client

Question 18

Problems occur when high risk clients are not triaged out of intensive case planning

Question 19

Successful case managers track and plan for medium- and high-risk clients, connect them to appropriate interventions, and form therapeutic relationships with them

Question 20

Components of a typical case plan include:

A) theories of offending.
B) responsivity factors.
C) recent disciplinary reports.
D) offense details.

Question 21

To help clients plan and execute a course of change, case managers need to utilize:

A) effective reinforcement.
B) motivational interviewing.
C) effective collaboration with the client.
D) all of the above

Question 22

When prioritizing criminogenic needs for case planning, correctional counselors should consider:

A) what the client is interested in working on.
B) age of the offender.
C) the counselor's belief in the client's likely success.
D) number of prior offenses on the client's record.

Question 23

Continuity of care is crucial for:

A) clients that will be transferred to other case managers.
B) clients with chronic mental health or substance dependence problems.
C) prisoner re-entry programs.
D) all of the above

Question 24

Benefits of a collaborative case management process include:

A) decreasing commitment to goals.
B) addressing as many needs at once as possible.
C) developing the client's planning and decision making skills.
D) developing the client's rationalizations for offending behavior.

Question 25

Taking a strengths-based approach encourages:

A) dependency.
B) desire to change.
C) avoidance.
D) anxiety.

Question 26

In a therapeutic relationship, a correctional counselor exhibits:

A) congruence.
B) sympathy.
C) distant boundaries.
D) authoritarian power.

Question 27

In a case plan, activities refer to:

A) short-term, immediate steps to reaching the broader goal.
B) long-term behavioral changes.
C) supervision, program referral, or in person meetings undertaken by the case manager.
D) objective, behavioral, and measurable accomplishments by the incarcerated individual.

Question 28

Poor case managers:

A) fail to update case plans over time.
B) match interventions to need levels.
C) fail to use an authoritarian approach.
D) involve the offender in developing the case plan.

Question 29

The Principle of Effective Intervention most involved in case planning is:

A) the risk principle.
B) the need principle.
C) the responsivity principle.
D) the relational principle.

Question 30

What is the foundation of state-of-the-art case planning?

A) a good therapeutic relationship
B) motivational interviewing
C) frequent use of positive reinforcement
D) effective collaboration with the client

Question 31

There is a need for further assessment when the client has a high score in which domain of a dynamic risk/needs assessment?

A) employment
B) education
C) housing
D) antisocial friends

Question 32

The ___________ states that intensive interventions should be reserved for high-risk and perhaps medium-risk clients.

A) risk principle
B) responsivity principle
C) needs principle
D) none of the above

Question 33

What should be done for low-risk clients?

A) polices and conditions that interfere with employment should not be assigned.
B) polices and conditions that interfere with family stability should not be assigned.
C) those returning from prison should return to prosocial families and neighborhoods as soon as possible.
D) all of the above

Question 34

All of the following supervision requirements are true except:

A) low-risk clients should use call-in methods of reporting.
B) low-risk clients should be kept out of probation waiting rooms.
C) low-risk clients should be kept out of group offender treatment settings.
D) low-risk clients should be assigned electronic monitoring.

Question 35

Correctional staff should assign ______________to half-way houses once released from prison.

A) low-risk clients
B) medium-risk clients
C) high-risk clients
D) none of the above

Question 36

Involving the client in his or her case planning produces all of the following advantages except:

A) it builds self-efficacy.
B) it models decision-making.
C) it undermines the authority of the case manager.
D) it encourages the client to take responsibility for the decisions affecting their lives.

Question 37

The ______________ guides case managers and counselors to take into consideration potential barriers to participating in their case plans.

A) risk principle
B) responsivity principle
C) needs principle
D) strengths principle

Question 38

What situations require that the case manager update a client's case plan?

A) when the clients finds gainful employment
B) when the client commit new violations
C) when the client experiences a mental health issue
D) all of the above

Question 39

All of the following are reasons why continuity of care is needed except:

A) when the client has a chronic problem.
B) when the client is not motivated to change.
C) when the client is being "handed off" to a different agency.
D) when the client begins a re-entry program.