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Documenting Psychotherapy
Essentials for Mental Health Practitioners


September 1997 | 200 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Avoid malpractice for keeping inadequate records and be prepared to respond to a professional peer review by using Documenting Psychotherapy, a practical volume that examines what is necessary in order to keep adequate records that meet current standards of care. This highly readable volume explores issues such as the limits of confidentiality, retention and disposition of records, documentation of safety issues, client access to records, treatment of minors, and the clinical record as it pertains to working with individuals, family couples and groups, as well as supervision and training issues are discussed in detail. Legal cases, vignettes and professional commentary are used throughout the book in order to help guide the reader in thinking through legal and ethical situations. Documenting Psychotherapy belongs on the book shelf of every mental health practitioner and will prove invaluable to professionals in clinical/counseling psychology, social work, psychology, interpersonal violence, and nursing.

 
PART ONE: THE IMPORTANCE OF RECORD KEEPING IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
 
Protecting the Client and the Therapist
 
Limits of Confidentiality
 
PART TWO: THE CLINICAL RECORD
 
Contents of a Good Record
 
Families, Couples and Group Psychotherapy
 
Supervision and Training
 
PART THREE: DOCUMENTATION OF SAFETY ISSUES
 
Danger to Self
 
Danger to Others
 
Abuse
 
PART FOUR: SPECIAL TOPICS RELEVANT TO RECORD KEEPING
 
Treatment of Minors
 
Client Access to Records
 
Retention and Disposition of Records
 
Conclusions and Frequently Asked Questions
 
PART FIVE: APPENDIXES

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