Clients’ Personal Histories – Collecting Helpful Information (OT295)
Client self-disclosure of personal history is essential to assessment, treatment, and the development of effective plans for preventing further harm to others. Steven Sawyer, MSSW, LICSW, ATSA-F developed this training to offer methods for helping clients to explore their life experiences, including the use of a structured workbook called Your Personal History.
The session further provides an overview of the workbook’s purpose, content, and practical application. It illustrates how collecting personal histories using tools such as Your Personal History serves as both a data collection procedure for intake or assessment and a series of pretreatment exercises to build treatment readiness and enhance self-reflection.
