 290 SELF-DETERMINATION DEFICI TS CLIENT PRESENTATION 1. Lack of Choices (1) * A. The client identified a lack of involvement in making the choices related to his/her daily life, school, residence, or vocation. B. Others often take away from the client the res ponsibility for making choices. C. As self-determination techniques have been used, the client has experienced an increase in his/her freedom to choose in his/her daily life, school, residence, or vocational situation. 2. Limited Decision-Making Experien ce (2) A. The client described that he/she has often not been allowed to make important decisions for himself/herself. B. The client has limited experience with using decision-making techniques. C. As self-determination techniques have been used, the cl ient has increased his/her experience in making decisions. D. As the client has made more of his/her own decisions, he/she reported increased satisfaction and function. 3. Poor Planning for Transitions (3) A. The client often fails to plan for his/her n ear or distant future. B. The client often experiences difficult transitions regarding relationships, residence, vocational, or financial concerns due to his/her pattern of poor planning. C. The client has often abdicated his/her responsibility for plann ing and expected others to complete this for him/her. D. As the client has become more focused on taking responsibility for his/her own future, his/her planning has increased. E. The client described better transitions in his/her relationships and financ ial, residential, or vocational situations due to his/her implementation of positive planning. 4. Decreased Responsibilities (4) A. The client described a pattern of decreased responsibility due to his/her mental illness. B. Others often take responsibi lity for the client's needs due to his/her mental illness. C. The client often fails to take responsibility for those areas in which he/she is capable due to his/her mental illness and others' tendency to take responsibility for him/her. D. As the client has taken responsibility for his/her own needs, others have decreased taking responsibility for him/her. * The numbers in parentheses correlate to the number of the Behavioral Defini tion statement in the companion chapter with the same title in The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner, 2nd ed. (Berghuis and Jongsma) by John Wiley & Sons, 2008. 