Clinical Case Management Model and Empowerment Oriented Case Management

This article discusses the Clinical Case Management Model and Empowerment Oriented Case Management. It explains the components of each model and compares and contrasts them. The Clinical Case Management Model combines resource acquisition with clinical activities, while Empowerment Oriented Case Management focuses on gaining control over one's life.

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Description of the Clinical Case management Model and its components:
Clinical case management is one of the most prominent case management models and one of
the most widely practised models among the traditional models of case management. It
includes the technique of combining resource acquisition along with the clinical activities
(Hauder, Pigat & Matthes, 2014). In this regard, clinical as well as rehabilitation methods
have been combined as in this case, many managers often make use of different kinds of
clinical as well as rehabilitating methods. These methods include the use of psychotherapy
along with the teaching of certain kinds of specific skills, which are aimed at ensuring that
the professional providers of the treatment are able to provide as well as coordinate therapy
as well as case management activities.
These approaches are widely used in the case of various kinds of substance abuse
programmes. This model of case management is based on the idea that the substance abuse
programmes can be thoroughly solved with the help of a therapeutic relationship (Garson et
al, 2014).
Components:
The components of the clinical have been classified into four parts which have further been
sub-divided into many parts. Each of these components and their sub-parts have been
provided below:
 The initial phase:
1. Engagement:
2. Assessment: Planning:
 Environmental interventions:
1. Connection with the community resources:
2. Maintenance and expansion of social networks

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3. Collaboration with different physicians and hospitals.
4. Maintenance as well as expansion of the social; networks.
5. Advocacy
 Patient interventions:
1. Intermittent in individual psycho-therapy.
2. Training in independent living skills
3. Patient psycho-education
 Patient-environment interventions
1. Crisis intervention
2. Monitoring
Description of the key components of empower-oriented case management:
 Social action: To be in control refers to the choice to act and be in such a position,
through which the lives of others can be affected in a better way. It is important to
create and maintain a perfect synergy between the concerned action and its reflection.
 Political awareness: It refers to the scenario where it is possible to get involved and
most importantly getting the citizen involved in the thick of things by making them
aware of the political spectrum (Gagnier et al., 2014). Empowerment involves a
consciousness raising procedure of politicization.
 The right to say and the right to ‘Have a Say’: Empowerment involves the process
of recognising the right to have a say in the day to day affairs of the work including
the recognition and the usage of the right to have a say in the day to day affairs. It
involves the right to participate in those decisions which is concerning their lives.

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 The use of power: Power has been classified into negative and positive power and it
is ensured that the people are able to recognise both of them and consequently use
their power judiciously. The act of consciously making the decision of adhering to the
right decisions is very important, which is prescribed by empower oriented case
management.
Comparison and contrasting the traditional and the empowerment oriented
case management:
The chosen model of traditional case management is the clinical case management. In
this paragraph a comparison and contrasting of both the traditional and the empowerment
oriented case management models has been done.
Traditional case Management: Empowerment oriented case
Management:
The Clinical Case Management Model is
connected with enhanced social functioning
and mental health and higher patient
satisfaction.
In this case, empowerment oriented case
management model, the primary task is
concerned with gaining control over one’s
life which refers to the act of gaining control
over the different factors which are critical
in accounting for the person’s oppression
and disempowerment (Rivest & Moreau,
2014).
This model uses health experts and clinical
experts as case managers to provide
unswerving services. Case management
tasks include engagement, assessment and
In this case management, practitioners
conceptualize and comprehend the
consciousness-raising procedure with the
intention of comprehending the various

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planning, community linking, individual
skills-
building through interventions such as
psychotherapy, psycho-education, and crisis
intervention
kinds of rights of the people for their
empowerment.
One of the most important components of
clinical management is the Healthcare
computer system, which is created to
automate manual procedures in clinics. The
main purpose is to digitize records of the
patients in order to make the task of data
retrieval much more easy and efficient
Empowerment is seen as an
explicit and even sometimes as an implicit
philosophy by case managers. They strongly
emphasise on the fact of empowering the
workers by means of giving them
information about their rights, duties as well
as other facilities.

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