How long should it take to write a progress note?

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How many hours each week do you spend on documentation in your counseling practice? How many hours SHOULD you spend on documentation?!
Dr. Maelisa McCaffrey of QA Prep outlines how much time is reasonable to spend writing the three main pieces of mental health documentation: Intake assessments, treatment plans, and progress notes.
Identify how to plan ahead for intake assessments and what portions should take up most of your time. Hear why taking longer on treatment plans might actually be a good thing, and even improve your work with clients. And learn two tips for writing faster progress notes.
Maelisa also highlights an important thing to consider if mental health documentation already takes up a lot of your time.
Links to videos mentioned here…
5 Tips for Easier Psychotherapy Intakes: • 5 Tips for Easier Psyc...
Using Collaborative Documentation for Treatment Plans: ru-vid.comjUvYB6XNM5I
Click here to download the FREE Therapy Interventions Cheat Sheet available on the QA Prep website: www.qaprep.com/therapy-interv...
Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:32 Intake assessment tips
01:25 Intake assessments do NOTs
02:05 More intake resources
02:26 Treatment plan tips
02:51 Timeframe for completing treatment plans
03:40 More treatment plan resources
04:02 Progress note tips
04:23 Reasonable timeframe for notes
04:51 When progress notes take too long
05:21 Tip #1 for faster progress notes
05:42 Tip #2 for faster progress notes
06:02 Free therapy interventions cheat sheet
06:37 Important reminder about progress notes
07:16 Exceptions for longer progress notes

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20 июл 2024

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@ReynaldoIvanPena 6 месяцев назад

1 Minute! Tops! I’m done! I can’t do this anymore Melissa 😵‍💫 -MSW, MST Therapist

@MaelisaMcCaffrey 6 месяцев назад

How about five? 😉

@ReynaldoIvanPena 6 месяцев назад

@@MaelisaMcCaffrey that’s much better than 20m

@TransformativeGuidedMedi-no9ee 7 месяцев назад

I have to ask...bullet points? Really? Please, please do a video using bullet points with a fictional client. May an example in response to this post. Please and thank you:)

@joane9096 7 месяцев назад

Thank you

@henryhealing444 7 месяцев назад

I recently worked for one of the large national online group practices. They allowed 2 minutes for notes per person up to 8 people, in each group. They insisted that all progress notes were canned pre-written answers. Two minutes.

@MaelisaMcCaffrey 7 месяцев назад

That is ludicrous to me. It would be nearly impossible to write personalized notes for all clients in that way. That is not a sustainable schedule and is unlikely to create quality notes. Too bad.

@lauralofy1676 7 месяцев назад

This would be wonderful; never gonna happen for me. I just cannot do all this stuff so quickly and it is such a struggle

@MaelisaMcCaffrey 7 месяцев назад

It's about the methods! Everyone will take a different amount of time... some people can do 5 minute notes and some can't get under 15 minutes. But if it's more than 15 minutes there is likely something else going on. Checkboxes that can be personalized to the client but keep you writing only phrases instead of full sentences can be a HUGE help.

@disiluzhund 5 месяцев назад

My biggest concern was not doubting myself but perhaps adding more than I needed to add for the sake of recall. How do you trust that you will remember which client said what in session and not confuse yourself if you're not keeping track? That's where I wrote too much info. I had my clinical notes and I had my side notes that I kept for myself, for recall and follow up with the client, like homework, reading material, specific personal conflict or step for client to take, if they avoided, etc. I could write books with fruitful sessions and most of mine were. I got burned out though. The software template was archaic, had no checkboxes. I spent my weekends creating my own, which reduced the time from one hour per note to 15 to 30 minutes. But there were insurance auths due every week on 1-3 clients, 1-4 treatment plans due every month, psych assessments per client, plus 12-15 weekly progress notes due and I literally got 3 hours of sleep on a good night. It was never going to get better and I walked.

@MaelisaMcCaffrey 5 месяцев назад

That’s definitely a balance - documenting enough for all the requirements but then you may need to document more for yourself, either for memory or other reasons. Theres some personal preference there.