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The Rehabilitation case management model is a traditional way to help clients learn new skills and overcome challenges after experiencing significant trauma. Through a structured plan and a mixture of inpatient, outpatient, and community-based care, clients can work toward independence. This type of case management helps determine a client’s needs and builds a plan to get them back to a stable livelihood. It can include various kinds of therapies, skill-building programs, and the development of community support.
Flexible Programming Catered to Individual Needs and Goals
Case managers who use the rehabilitation case management model consider their client’s personality and background to create a holistic plan to help them thrive after surviving trauma. Case managers often work with their clients to focus on analyzing weaknesses, injuries, negative behaviors, and flawed thought or belief patterns. They dig down into the source of these challenges in order to help clients learn strategies to overcome the ongoing effects of trauma that they likely experience.
Part of the goal of the rehabilitation case management model is to help clients obtain a balanced view of their strengths and weaknesses. They can learn to see and accept themselves as complete people with the ability to continue growing and learning. With this healthy mindset as their motivation, clients can be encouraged to pursue their rehabilitation with new strength and determination. Gaining a well-rounded perspective on life and a better understanding of themselves and their needs helps them grow and recover. The Rehabilitation model is also designed to take clients’ personal goals into account, which will further motivate them.
No specific time limit to these plans exists except when the nonprofit or client sets one, though many programs may have loose or flexible timelines. The goal, however, is to phase out the program over time and assist the client in gaining independence as soon as realistically possible.
Case Managers Serve As Coordinators and/or Clinical Assistants
The role of the case manager in a rehabilitation scenario can vary depending on the client, the case manager’s qualifications, and other professionals’ availability to assist with the client’s program. If they have the qualifications and approval, case managers may be clinicians, taking a direct approach to rehabilitation with clients and using other members of their care team to assist them as necessary. In this case, they will likely be the main point of contact and coordinator of care for the client, along with providing services themselves.
Even if the case manager doesn’t have the expertise or credentials to provide direct clinical services to the client, they are still often the primary point of contact for the client and the client’s family. In this scenario, they will also likely organize a team of professionals to perform rehab functions, serving primarily as an advocate and point of contact and assistance for the client.
Who the Rehabilitation Case Management Model Can Help
The Rehabilitation model can be used in a wide variety of contexts. It can help people who are overcoming substance abuse and addiction, people recovering from serious injuries, and people who are trying to begin new lives after exiting an abusive or unstable living situation. Often used (at least at the start) in residential facilities, the Rehabilitation model can build a sense of safety, structure, and order for clients of all types and needs. It can help them begin the process of healing and recovery, and eventually complete the plan and move on. In some cases, a Rehabilitation plan may transition into an Intensive Comprehensive Care model, once the client leaves a residential facility and enters an independent home or a halfway house.
How CaseWorthy Can Help
Our job is to assist case managers in helping their clients well. We offer tools and resources to make nonprofits’ workloads easier and help their staff work more efficiently and productively. In addition, we love to share our own expertise and experiences with nonprofits so they can do their best work. If you’d like to learn more about what we have to offer, visit the other resources on our website!