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From Chaos to Clarity: Unleashing the Power of the Golden Thread in Treatment Planning

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About the Course

Many psychotherapists experience “documentation anxiety” because they were not trained in graduate school in how to document according to medical necessity standards. As a result, they can feel at the mercy of insurance companies, spending an enormous amount of time justifying treatment, fighting rejected insurance claims, fearing, or preparing for audits, writing disability reports, defending themselves in a board complaint, and losing income. Paperwork often seems unrelated to being clinically useful. Treatment plans, in particular, are often generic, not client centered, and avoided. This leaves the clinician vulnerable to financial loss if records are audited, or to legal, ethical, or professional issues in case of a board complaint. In this webinar, we will discuss how good treatment planning supports good clinical practice, justifies medical necessity, facilitates getting authorizations, and helps mental health professionals and clinics pass insurance audits and protect themselves in case of a board complaint, and thus saving thousands of dollars in potential recoupments and lost productivity. Knowing how to develop a treatment plan to medical necessity standards contributes to a marked reduction in documentation anxiety, better clinical outcomes and increased job satisfaction.

This course is based on the recorded webinar, From Chaos to Clarity: Unleashing the Power of the Golden Thread in Treatment Planning created by Beth Rontal, LICSW in 2023.

Publication Details

Publication Date: First Oct 2023

Course Material Author

Beth Rontal, LICSW
Beth Rontal, LICSW, is a nationally recognized and engaging speaker on mental health documentation for private practice clinicians and those working in agency behavioral health settings. Her Misery and Mastery SM trainings and accompanying forms have been used all over the world. She mastered her teaching skills with thousands of hours supervising and training both seasoned professionals and interns when supervising at an agency for 11 years. Beth writes blogs on clinical documentation, co-chairs the NASW Private Practice Shared Interest Group, and has a private practice in Brookline, MA specializing in working with people who struggle with emotional eating.
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Target Audience

Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Determine how to translate clinical skill and intuition into the behavioral language required for mental health documentation.
  2. 2 Name 1 question to ask the client to co-create a treatment plan.
  3. 3 Employ the Golden Thread in treatment planning to help justify medical necessity.

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Beth Rontal, LICSW – No disclosures to report.

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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Course Details

3 CE Hours
Recorded Webinar
Course 103378

Related Topics

Treatment Planning Documentation

Availability

This course is available until Nov 27th, 2033.

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