The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Progress Notes Planner - (PracticePlanners) 2nd Edition by David J Berghuis & Arthur E Jongsma (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The flexible format of The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Progress Notes Planner, 2nd Edition enables you to choose between evidence based and traditional "best practice" treatment approaches for your patients. Fully revised to meet your needs as a mental health professional working in today's long-term care facilities, this time-saving resource will save you hours of time-consuming paperwork without sacrificing your ability to develop customized progress notes. This guide is organized around 31 behaviorally based issues, from employment problems and family conflicts, to financial needs and homelessness, to intimate relationship conflicts and social anxiety.

From the Back Cover

The Bestselling treatment planning system for mental health professionals

The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Progress Notes Planner, Second Edition contains complete prewritten session and patient presentation descriptions for each behavioral problem in The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner, Second Edition. The prewritten progress notes can be easily and quickly adapted to fit a particular client need or treatment situation.

• Saves you hours of time-consuming paperwork, yet offers the freedom to develop customized progress notes

• Organized around 31 behaviorally based presenting problems, from employment problems and family conflicts, to financial needs and homelessness, to intimate relationship conflicts and social anxiety

• Features over 1,000 prewritten progress notes (summarizing patient presentation, themes of session, and treatment delivered)

• Provides an array of treatment approaches that correspond with the behavioral problems and DSM-IV-TR diagnostic categories in The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner, Second Edition

• Offers sample progress notes that conform to the requirements of most third-party payors and accrediting agencies, including CARF, COA, The Joint Commission (TJC), and the NCQA

• Presents new and updated information on the role of evidence-based practice in progress notes writing and the special status of progress notes under HIPAA

Review Quotes

"...provides guidance to go beyond maintenance into concrete achievement of goals related to role functioning in the community." (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol 33 No. 1, Summer 2009)

About the Author

Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr., PhD, is Series Editor for the bestselling PracticePlanners. Since 1971, he has provided professional mental health services to both inpatient and outpatient clients. He managed a group private practice for twenty-five years and is now the Executive Director of Life Guidance Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

David J. Berghuis, MA, LLP, is in private practice and has worked in community mental health for more than a decade. He is also coauthor of numerous titles in the PracticePlanners series.