ACT Daily Tools
As an integrated, comprehensive approach to advancing client recovery and promoting autonomy, ACT teams necessarily address many different domains of a client’s life. Doing so effectively requires thorough, comprehensive assessment as a starting point for creating treatment plans that deliver the appropriate interventions. The following tools have been developed to aid in this work.
ACT DAILY TOOLS
The SPIRIT Center has developed a number of ACT-specific tools intended to assist team members in assessing clients, devising treatment plans, as well as delivering and documenting services. While these documents represent strong, evidence-based practice, they can easily be adapted to fit the particular needs of an agency:
ACT Transition Assessment Tool
ACT Revised Comprehensive Assessment
Putting It Together (PIT) Team Case Formulation
Other Areas of Clinical Assessment
While not necessarily developed specifically for ACT clients, the following tools have been compiled out of evidence-based clinical work with clients experiencing serious mental illness, and will likely be of use to ACT team members.
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms
Suicide Risk
Violence Toward Person or Property
Alcohol Use Disorder
Substance Use Disorder
Client Ambivalence Around Change
Recovery Beliefs
Strengths Assessment
Nicotine Dependence
Psychiatric Rehabilitation