One of the most common myths about mental health documentation is that therapy notes for insurance must include CBT interventions. Dr. Maelisa McCaffrey of QA Prep discusses why this isn’t actually true and what mental health therapists should focus on instead in their psychotherapy progress notes.

Insurance companies like to see therapy notes cover two major topics:
1) What you’re doing as the mental health therapist
2) Progress your client is making in psychotherapy

You'll learn how to do just that using two of Maelisa's secret weapons, the Grandma Rule and the all important progress statement.

Click below to access the sample progress statement Maelisa mentions at the end!
Link: https://www.qaprep.com/progressstate...

This is part of a 5 part series on the most common myths about mental health documentation. Here are the other videos in the series…
1) Mental health documentation: Most common myths revealed    • Mental Health Documentation: Most com...  
2) Therapy Notes Interventions for Insurance    • Therapy Notes Interventions for Insur...  
3) Common Myths About Process Notes    • Common myths about process notes & HIPAA  
4) Make Progress Notes Easy    • Make Progress Notes EASY (Therapists ...  
5) Progress Notes: How much is too much?    • Therapy Progress Notes: How much is t...  

Chapters in this video:
00:00 Introduction
00:28 What insurance wants to see
00:52 The Grandma rule
01:46 Interventions for insurance notes
02:11 Client progress
02:36 Talking to clients about progress
03:26 Summary of observable content in notes
04:01 Cheat sheet of progress statements