Phase 1: Application Review

Once an application packet and payment are received, Blueprints will review the information and determine if our services appear to align with the individual or family’s needs. If so, we will contact the applicant to schedule an intake interview. In the event we determine the individual or family’s needs would be better served by a different set of services, references for other agencies will be provided and the payment will not be processed.

Phase 2: Intake Meeting

The purpose of the intake interview is to determine if both parties are willing to enter into a therapist-client relationship. During this meeting the Blueprints Principle and Director will gather additional information, describe our services in more detail, and answer all relevant questions the potential clients may have.

Phase 3: Assessment

After a client consents to treatment, we begin by gathering additional and vital information, which will help us identify presenting problems or symptoms of larger, more systemic problems. The assessment phase has four components:

• Interviews
• Ecological Assessments
• Functional Behavior Assessments
• Psychoeducational Assessments

Phase 4: Analysis

Once the assessment phase is completed, we meticulously review all information gathered during each component of the assessment. Then we begin a comprehensive analysis of the causation of the underlying source(s) of the presenting problems and symptoms, as well as the interaction of existing behavior systems. The analysis phase includes one or more of the following:

• Contingency Matrix Analysis
• Systems Analysis
• Functional Analysis

The analysis phase is the most crucial element of our service delivery model, as it informs the entirety of our program development process and change procedures.

Phase 5: Program Development

Once our comprehensive analysis is complete, we will develop a Constructional Program Plan which describes (a) the results of the analysis, (b) constructional outcomes and targets, (c) relevant skill sets, (d) social strengths, (e) environmental assets, (f) motives, (g) available incentives, and (h) change procedures.

Phase 6: Intervention

During the intervention phase, we will implement the recommended change procedures to achieve the client’s desired goals and outcomes. In addition, we regularly meet with the client to teach them logic and methods for analyzing and increasing control over their children/students’ and/or their own behavior. During these meetings we will analyze the data collected by both the client & our team and observe the implementation of recommended procedures. Based on the data we will add, pause, or adjust programs and provide feedback. Also, we will problem solve to remove barriers and address challenges, and plan the next steps of intervention. All intervention plans are tailored to meet the client’s individual needs, and therefore can vary along any of the following parameters: number of service hours and direct service recipients, types of services, number & type of staff members and intervention settings, as well as amount & type of measures.

Phase 7: Maintenance

The client’s program advances from intervention to maintenance when the data clearly show progress toward client goals and the primary stakeholders frequently and consistently validate such progress. During the maintenance phase, the intensity of direct services decreases and our focus shifts from the development of a healthy social/family system to monitoring the client’s management of their system.

Phase 8: Exit Services

Once we have evidence that the client is capable of independently managing their social/family system, we develop an Exit Plan that describes all relevant information gathered in Phase 1 through 7, and make recommendations for further success.