The Importance of a Treatment Plan

Treatment plans are supposed to be done very early in treatment. And they're supposed to be collaborative and shared with the client. So what we're talking about is introducing a document into therapy early, early in the therapy to process if under certain circumstances, you do need to have it done in the first session. But under other circumstances, you don't. You just need to having it done like early enough in therapy so that ostensibly, yes, it's guiding your treatment,. But what does that do? If it's that early in treatment, what would a document produce collaboratively between the therapist and the client that outlines what is going to happen in treatment in the future? What does that