Explain how creating a graphic causal chain with the client can improve his/her behavioral health outcomes.

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: The White American client is the “expert” on his own life and has had multiple negative and positive experiences in living his life with ADHD. After a second automobile car accident, his attorney recommended he seek professional help for his high-risk behaviors. With the social worker, the client must address his adolescent diagnosis of ADHD, noncompliance with medication prescriptions, mood swings, and legal difficulties. All of these related situations have led him to financial, legal, and behavioral consequences. The client is now confronted with making decisions to improve the quality of his life.

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