Date: Friday, September 30, 2016 - 9:00am to 4:45pm
Instructors: Beth Rontal, LICSW and Liz Brenner, LICSW
Instructors: Beth Rontal, LICSW and Liz Brenner, LICSW
Cost:
Individual registration is $140.00, $130 early registration for individuals, $125 groups of two or more, $115 early registration for groups. Early registration ends on August 19, 2016. You must pay together by check in the same envelope or with the same credit card or Paypal account to qualify for group registration.
Location:
Note new location: First Parish Church 50 Church Street Waltham MA 02452
Individual registration is $140.00, $130 early registration for individuals, $125 groups of two or more, $115 early registration for groups. Early registration ends on August 19, 2016. You must pay together by check in the same envelope or with the same credit card or Paypal account to qualify for group registration.
Location:
Note new location: First Parish Church 50 Church Street Waltham MA 02452
Good clinical documentation is an important part of psychotherapy practice. It is often the most disliked part of clinicians’ work. Many people feeling there is not enough guidance about what to write and how to write it. Paperwork can seem disconnected from being helpful to clients. Some clinicians feel that they are in an ethical dilemma of providing good care or meeting the demands of payers. On the flip side, some of us can be ruled by documentation requirements in a way that gets in the way of quality care.
Effective documentation requires good interviewing skills and organizes clinical thinking so that writing notes and treatment plans can be done quickly and efficiently, authorizations are easy and audits aren’t threatening. It can be a reflection of and contribution to high quality clinical work rather than a detour. Paradoxically, the more the practice of psychotherapy becomes scrutinized, the more important good record keeping becomes. A lack of knowledge and skill can leave therapists and clinics feeling at the mercy of insurance companies as they spend an enormous amount of time justifying treatment, fighting rejected insurance claims, preparing for audits and losing income.
Learn to work with people in a collaborative, empowering ways that helps them define goals and treatment plans for themselves so you can provide and document excellent, effective care while more easily satisfying record keeping needs and advocating for clients with payers when needed. Using questions from solution oriented therapy is a simple way to do this efficiently.
Beth Rontal will help you gain mastery over the documentation process by learning how to: 1. simplify and clarify the documentation process 2. use guidelines to write effective treatment plans and session notes 3. quickly translate your work into the behavioral language used by insurance companies and 4. justify medical necessity
Liz Brenner will teach solution oriented questions geared toward: 1. conducting an interview that therapeutically cultivates clients own goals and objectives 2.inspiring clients to change 3. simplifying translation of the therapeutic process to documentation 4. providing concrete solutions to the stress associated with writing medical records
Effective documentation requires good interviewing skills and organizes clinical thinking so that writing notes and treatment plans can be done quickly and efficiently, authorizations are easy and audits aren’t threatening. It can be a reflection of and contribution to high quality clinical work rather than a detour. Paradoxically, the more the practice of psychotherapy becomes scrutinized, the more important good record keeping becomes. A lack of knowledge and skill can leave therapists and clinics feeling at the mercy of insurance companies as they spend an enormous amount of time justifying treatment, fighting rejected insurance claims, preparing for audits and losing income.
Learn to work with people in a collaborative, empowering ways that helps them define goals and treatment plans for themselves so you can provide and document excellent, effective care while more easily satisfying record keeping needs and advocating for clients with payers when needed. Using questions from solution oriented therapy is a simple way to do this efficiently.
Beth Rontal will help you gain mastery over the documentation process by learning how to: 1. simplify and clarify the documentation process 2. use guidelines to write effective treatment plans and session notes 3. quickly translate your work into the behavioral language used by insurance companies and 4. justify medical necessity
Liz Brenner will teach solution oriented questions geared toward: 1. conducting an interview that therapeutically cultivates clients own goals and objectives 2.inspiring clients to change 3. simplifying translation of the therapeutic process to documentation 4. providing concrete solutions to the stress associated with writing medical records
Comments from people who have taken the Misery or Mastery workshop with Beth
I am delighted that I no longer feel that being an intuitive, attuned therapist is a barrier to using behaviorally-specific language in writing requests for authorizations! This was in large part because of Beth’s ability to teach documentation skills with confidence, curiosity, compassion and a LOT of clarity. -- Debbie Armstrong, LICSW
The class is improving my clinical work as well as my documentation skill. -- Barbara Kaplan, LICSW or Mastery workshop with Beth:
The class is improving my clinical work as well as my documentation skill. -- Barbara Kaplan, LICSW or Mastery workshop with Beth:
Comments about Liz's teaching about using solution oriented questions
The solution oriented questions were the best part of the learning for me. I am looking forward to using them with my clients who are stuck and in conflictual relationships. --Lynn Cooper, PhD
I didn't think I was going to be able to use the questions, but I went back and used them with my adolescents students and was really pleased with the way the therapeutic conversation with teenage boys opened up leading organically to goals and action plans getting developed. --Marina Gonzalez-Ang
I didn't think I was going to be able to use the questions, but I went back and used them with my adolescents students and was really pleased with the way the therapeutic conversation with teenage boys opened up leading organically to goals and action plans getting developed. --Marina Gonzalez-Ang
Workshop Outline
Introduction to documentation: best practices and tricky issues.
How to write a Treatment Plan
How to write a Session Note
Learn solution oriented questions that provide a bridge from session to documentation
Watch a demonstration interview that cultivates goals and objectives in behavioral language
Translate practice interview into Treatment Plan and Session Note
Practice interviewing in dyads
Q and A time will be available throughout the day
How to write a Treatment Plan
How to write a Session Note
Learn solution oriented questions that provide a bridge from session to documentation
Watch a demonstration interview that cultivates goals and objectives in behavioral language
Translate practice interview into Treatment Plan and Session Note
Practice interviewing in dyads
Q and A time will be available throughout the day
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will learn 5 key components necessary to write cohesive Treatment Plans and Session Notes.
2. Participants will learn several solution oriented interview questions that help them write in behavioral language necessary to meet best practice documentation standards.
3. Participants will learn the criteria that helps justify medical necessity.
2. Participants will learn several solution oriented interview questions that help them write in behavioral language necessary to meet best practice documentation standards.
3. Participants will learn the criteria that helps justify medical necessity.
Faculty Bios
Beth Rontal, LICSW, a clinical supervisor at Community Services, has spent 100’s of hours supervising psychotherapists and teaching them how to write effective documentation. She teaches this skill by linking good clinical practice with effective record keeping. Beth also has a private practice specializing in emotional and binge eating where she works with adults and young adults in Brookline, MA. She co-developed and co-leads the Transforming Overeating Group where participants report “eating to soothe my feelings” decreased by 50%. An engaging speaker, Beth presents at national conferences on both emotional eating and clinical documentation. She is a Certified Professional in Tapas Acupressure Technique®, has Level II training in Internal Family Systems and is a member of New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation.
Liz Brenner, LICSW, is the Director of Therapy Training Boston. She is the primary instructor of the Intensive Certificate Program in Family Systems Therapy at TTB. Liz was on the faculty of the Family Institute of Cambridge from 2003 until 2009. She is the co-chair of the Mindfulness and Family Therapy Interest Group for the American Family Therapy Academy. In her role as a teaching associate for Harvard Medical School, Liz supervises in the Couple and Family Therapy Program at Cambridge Health Alliance. She also provides individual and group supervision, agency consultation and training. Her clinical work with individuals, couples and families and teaching integrates family systems, mindfulness, trauma and recovery orientations.
Registration Instructions:
Register now online You may register online and pay by credit card, Paypal or check. If paying by check, please download the mail in registration form. Please note that your seat is not saved until we receive payment for the event.
Group registrants must register together in one envelope with all payments enclosed or online with one credit card or Paypal payment.
Note: your space is not secured for an event until we receive payment.
Registration form (by mail)
Note: your space is not secured for an event until we receive payment.
Registration form (by mail)
Workshop CEs:
Participants MUST attend 100% of the program to earn the 6 CEs approved for this program. CE certificates will be given at the end of the event after you are fully paid and have completed the evaluation form. Details for your approved professions here: 6 CEs have been approved for licensed Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychologist, Licensed Mental Health Counselors and Nurses by Commonwealth Educational Seminars. Licensed Mental Health Counselor's can earn 6 CEs as Therapy Training Boston has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6707. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Therapy Training Boston is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
RSS Feed