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### Treatment Planning - **Importance**: Many clinicians and interns struggle with writing effective treatment plans. - **Tools**:  - **Integrative Summary**: Provides an executive summary of the patient's story, supports diagnosis, and identifies problems to drive treatment planning.  - **Standardized Instruments**: Used for guiding treatment planning, such as FARS, CANS, ASAM, and LOCUS.    ### Integrated Summary - **Purpose**: Summarizes the patient’s condition, diagnosis, and impacts of identified problems. - **Use**: Drives treatment planning by connecting symptoms to the diagnosis and planning interventions. - **Key Components**:  - Summarize presenting problems and evidence of impairments.  - Define the diagnosis and support it with evidence.  - Provide treatment recommendations.  - Include a relapse prevention plan. ### Reassessment - **Purpose**: Evaluate patient progress, note any changes in their condition, and adjust treatment plans as needed. - **Frequency**: Recommended to be done at least mont