Therapy Notes Interventions for Insurance

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: www.qaprep.com/progress-state...
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 Document...
2) Therapy Notes Interventions for Insurance • Therapy Notes Interven...
3) Common Myths About Process Notes • Common myths about pro...
4) Make Progress Notes Easy • Make Progress Notes EA...
5) Progress Notes: How much is too much? • Therapy Progress Notes...
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

[@joellenlange7083]

I learned none of this in my internship or in other training or supervision. THANK YOU! I feel more confident because of your videos :D

[@MaelisaMcCaffrey]

Many of your supervisors probably never got this info, either! Glad the videos help :)

[@SuzanThompson]

Thanks so much, Maelisa! You've confirmed what I've been doing and also teaching my Residents in Counseling to do. Yay!

[@MaelisaMcCaffrey]

Oh that's awesome!

[@emawilliams3284]

Thank you for this video.

[@acmeccs7304]

Good stuff--thanks!

[@carriehinds7394]

Thank you!

[@suzannehecker8906]

Great videos, thank you! I am trying to find the link to request the cheatsheet, but cannot see it. Can someone repost here in the comments? Thank you.

[@MaelisaMcCaffrey]

Here you go: www.qaprep.com/progress-statement-handout

[@aminatabongay7919]

Thanks!

[@MaelisaMcCaffrey]

Aw, thank you so much! It means a lot 😊

[@andreambrownridge7642]

💛💛💛

[@drbutler35]

Greetings, where can I provide my email to get the cheat sheets?

[@teresascott5788]

This is great. How can i get the cheat sheet

[@MaelisaMcCaffrey]

Click on the link in the description :)

[@Jenkate1636]

I can't find where to put my email to get your progress cheat sheet.

[@MaelisaMcCaffrey]

Here you go: www.qaprep.com/progress-statement-handout