6. Once the client has been linked to the services he or she needs, the case worker must:
Continue monitoring the client’s progress and advocating for his or her needs
File a report and close the client’s case
Allow the client’s other social service workers’ requirements to take precedence
Avoid contacting the client’s other service professionals to coordinate care, in the interest of protecting the
client’s privacy
Case Management as a Process
7. In considering the level of assistance a client needs, the agency will:
Always assign the most intensive level case manager so that the client can have the most individual attention
Assess the client’s situation during the intake interview, and assign a case manager based on determined need
Simply assign an administrative case manager at first to assess the level of need
Assign a resource coordinator to assist the client in handling the details of the treatment plan
Levels of Case Management
8. A case manager’s interventions can be considered therapeutic in that:
The case manager is a trained psychotherapist
The case manager can provide medications that help the client deal with emotional disorders
The case manager can help the client learn life skills that will make the client more effective in his or her daily
life
The case manager can treat the client’s problems without making a referral to a clinical therapist
Separating Case Management from Therapy
9. As a case manager representing a client who is within a Managed Care Organization, you:
Owe it to the client to advocate for services that you feel are in the client’s best interest
Keep your focus on controlling costs
Use a decision tree to help decide what treatments and services are appropriate
Defer to the MCO case manager when deciding on the client’s treatment options
Managed Care and Case Management
10. The resiliency model of case management refers to:
The changing view of mental illness and substance abuse from one of gradual deterioration to one of recovery
and a productive life
Emphasis on the client’s personal choices and activities for the life that is most meaningful to that individual
A positive view of the child’s life and circumstances in which the provider actively seeks the child’s strengths
on which to build
The movement toward services that are diverse enough to meet the client’s needs, are well coordinated and
Case Management as a Process