Successfully Documenting Mental Health Services for Social Workers and Other Practitioners

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Description

Learn the best practices for documenting in social work, including ethical risks, legal risks, and management issues.
Never underestimate the power of documentation. Learn the best practices for documenting in social work and behavioral health, including ethical risks, legal risks, and management issues. This presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of ethical, malpractice, and riskmanagement issues pertaining to the documentation of services and critical incidents in behavioral health settings. The content will include stateoftheart guidelines about documentation purposes, content, wording, storage, retention, and access, consistent with prevailing ethical standards. The material will focus on emerging challenges related to electronic health records, including documentation errors, access in integrated health settings, and cybersecurity.

Date: 2023-02-15 Start Time: 1:00 PM ET End Time: 2:00 PM ET

Learning Objectives

Documentation in Social Work and Behavioral Health: Overview of Ethical and Risk-Management Issues
• The Role of Documentation: Assessment, Planning and Delivering Services, Accountability, Continuity and Coordination of Services, Supervision, and Evaluation
• Core Documentation Issues: Content, Wording, Storage, Retention, and Access

Ethical Risks
• Documentation Mistakes
• Ethical Judgments
• Ethical Misconduct

Key Concepts in Risk Management
• Standards of Care
• Ethical Standards
• Negligence, Malpractice, and Subpoenas
• Liability

Documentation Tips
• Documentation Dos and Don’ts
• Case Examples

Emerging Challenges: Electronic Health Records

Frederic G. Reamer, Ph.D.-Rhode Island College