Training Series

Documentation

All behavioral health providers are required to meet regulatory standards of practice that include appropriate documentation. This series includes a range of resources on documentation best practices.

Documentation Series #1: Questions and Answers: A Conversation About Documentation Best Practices

November 16, 2016
This webinar covered best practice tips and what to avoid to support successful communication via behavioral health documentation.

Documentation Series #2: Foundations of Documentation and Establishing the Need for Treatment

November 30, 2016
This webinar covered the importance of a person-centered approach, the basics of effective documentation, medical necessity, assessments, and discharge planning.

Documentation Series #3: Treatment Plans

December 14, 2016
Part 3 of a 6 part series on documentation, this webinar covered broad principles/core competencies of documentation that are relevant across diverse service lines, tips and strategies for effective Treatment Plans, including: person-centered goals, clear and measurable objectives, and focused inter...

Documentation Series #4: The Progress Note: A Critical Component of Care

January 11, 2017
This webinar covered the importance of utilizing the progress note as a way to document quality care. The progress note is a critical component connecting the provider’s work in treatment with established treatment goals. This webinar focused on how to document aspects of an individual’s treatme...

Documentation Series #5: Supporting High Quality Documentation as a Supervisor

January 25, 2017
This webinar covered the role of the supervision relationship in supporting effective documentation; tools and strategies for supervisors to guide practice change.

Documentation Series #6: Office hours webinar

February 15, 2017
This webinar covered remaining questions from earlier webinars as well as live support for problem-solving or additional questions that have arisen. 
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