The process that includes identification and ranking of problems needing resolution is:

• A. Treatment planning
• B. Assessment
• C. Termination
• D. Referral

Answer: (A)

The process described is treatment planning. After gathering information about a client’s problems, the clinician identifies each issue and sorts them by importance or urgency to decide where to start. This ranking creates a roadmap of goals, objectives, and interventions that guides the work—allocating attention to the most impactful problems first and outlining how progress will be measured. Assessment contributes to this by uncovering and describing problems, but prioritizing them for action is the core function of the treatment plan itself. Termination and referrals are stages that occur later and don’t focus on ordering problems for resolution. For example, if someone faces risky drinking, housing instability, and job stress, prioritizing the drinking risk would typically shape the initial treatment plan, with housing and job concerns addressed as the plan progresses.