Week 2 Flashcards
Prevention
Psychoeducation
- Education around psychology
- Learning key features Principles of recovery/treatment
Trends Today: Prevention
Life Management
- Coaches to help ppl manage transitions New responsibilities etc Helping people live happy and fulfilling lives.
Trends Today: Prevention
Preventing needless self-disturbance
- The worried well Ppl who are concerned for their health and safety because they worry
Trends Today: Prevention
Self-help
- Becoming prominent
- Spirituality is increasing
Trends Today: Prevention
- What will happen with the titles of Counseling and Psychotherapy?
- There will be a distinction without a difference No difference today
Trends Today: Prevention
What therapy will dominate and become more culturally sensitive And why?
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Goals will be cognitive/behavioral because it provides measurable objectives
Trends Today
What type of therapy will grow?
- Brief therapy with an average of 8-12 sessions
- (Average affected by skew of the people who only go once)
Trends Today
Trends Who will treatment be available to?
- The treatable won’t be for those unlikely to respond to treatment
Trends Today
What types of assessments will become more common?
- Computer driven assessment with lifestyle assessments
- People are diagnosing themselves
Trends Today
Which fields of research will empathize the field profoundly and why will this help?
- Molecular biology
- Genetics
- Counselors are marginalized for lack of medical knowledge
Trends Today
What type of Speciality services will increase?
- Specific topics such as violence in the work place
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Wellness programs
- Stress management
Trends Today
What is an Employee Assistance Program? (EAP)
- Personnel who help employees with their problems
- Assess them quickly and refer them
Trends Today
Why does the “solo act” have a limited future?
- Systems of care
- Need partnerships for referrals
- Need to demonstrate quality
- what we do is effective and works.
- That we have the best knowledge of today and know that there are just some things we cannot solve today and communicate that)
- Demonstrate that what we do is effective.
- Communicate outcome data
Trends Today
What type of professional will focus be placed on?
- Impaired professionals
Trends Today
1998 Impaired Professional Act
- Very serious law; designed to protect the public
- The inability or imminent inability for a health professional to practice the profession with reasonable skill or safety due to the use of mood altering drugs, chemical dependency or mental illness; must go to treatment or lose license.
- **Has to impair performance**.
Trends Today
What might happen if you work with a colleague who is impaired and you ignore it?
- You could lose your license You’d be protected if you were wrong
Trends Today
Counselor Choices
- “Take the cash” – no insurance
- “Make change” – adapt to insurance parameters on managed care
- “Sell Shoes”
- still must meet standards of profession
Clinical Director’s Point of View
(person in charge of the staff where clinicians work. Hires people, that person is a therapist)
- Simple Philosophy
- Provide quality of service- are paid to make a difference and if you cannot do that then step aside; the better the clinician, the better the client
- Hire clinicians who have: you have to be able to fix whatever it is wrong.
- Excellent clinical skills (people can do the job)
- An understanding of modern health care
- Excellent communication skills (be able to have an effective language ability)- written and oral.
Clinical Skills
Biopsychosocial History
- from data to information- two different notions. Not really interested much in data, are interested in information
- By translating data to information, he means that pieces of data may be things that end up pertaining to your client’s case -
- Example: John Doe grows up in Tennessee in a rural community vs his wife, who grew up in Ann Arbor, MI
Clinical Skills
- Biopsychosocial History
- Integrated Summary
- Treatment Planning
- Intervening Effectively
Understanding Modern Health Care
- Finances are part of the plan
- ***Covered benefit vs. pre-authorization:
- Referral Ethical issues
Understanding Modern Health Care
Covered Benefit
- what insurance company say you have available to you
- versus Pre-authorization (does not mean client can get all of what is covered
Understanding Modern Healthcare
Pre-Auth
- determines how much
- does not mean client can get all of what is covered
- You will receive the amount out of the number that the pre-authorization/managed care folks will allow
- not necessarily the max.
Understanding Modern Healthcare
Referral
- (do not just tell person, all is controlled)
- (you have to transfer clients that you cannot treat).
- Refer people to clinicians or clinics to the places where they are best served
- cannot just keep them because you need the business, etc.
- Make sure whomever you refer your client to, that the client would still be covered under their insurance
Understanding Modern Healthcare
Ethical issues
- (do not use up sessions in beginning, only so many are covered)
Communication Skills: The Clinical Record (the client’s “chart”)
Documents the findings
- documentation of how client is on day one,
- then what we did,
- how things unfolded,
- whether we made a positive impact today.
- Must be written legibly
Communication Skills: The Clinical Record (the client’s “chart”)
Is a legal document
- (if you must change an error on a document, you must draw a line through it so it can still be read, make the correction, initial and date the change; no white out!)
- Write in a way that you would feel confident defending in court
Communication Skills
What does the clinical record need to reflect?
- Clinical Intelligence and Therapeutic Skills
- (JCAHO Standards– Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations)
- *set all standards across health care, and accredits them. BCBS will only pay for accredited services.
Communication Skills
Clinical records need to be….
- Coherent, logical, functional serves a helpful purpose and meaning of recording the clinical progress of the client while under my care.
Communication Skills
Represent the clinical case to payor
- Use the correct/acceptable (clinical) language
- Whatever you tell BCBS on the phone to get auths for treatment, you need to have the same thing demonstrated in that client’s case notes, or it’s FRAUD
- Have a crisp treatment plan (There is a correct & acceptable language in our field that we must use.)
The Clinical Record Need Legal Document for…?
Interdisciplinary Communication
- between different professionals serving the client
- If the client must see a psychiatrist, and the psychiatrist needs your record
The Clinical Record: Need Legal Document for…?
Peer Review
- (colleagues will review charts, committees will review them such as quality assurance, etc., a psychiatrist seeing your client may review it, etc.)
- Used to be a bigger feature of clinical practice than it is today b/c of managed care
The Clinical Record: Need Legal Document for…?
Accountability
- (to insurance companies, it documents the person was there)
The Clinical Record: Need Legal Document for…?
Guiding Treatment
- keeps us on task for our goals and objectives)
- tells us what’s working, what isn’t working, what we have changed/haven’t changed in our treatment
Clinical Record: Elements of Clinical Record
Consent for Treatment
- (should not provide treatment to anyone until they sign consent for treatment)
- (may contain reasons why their treatment might be cancelled
- not putting forth any effort, wasting time, etc.)
- (must always be written by an attorney)
Clinical Record: Elements of Clinical Record
Biopsychosocial History
- Intake Info
Clinical Record: Elements of Clinical Record
Integrated Summary
- (tail end of the biopsychosocial history)
Clinical Record: Elements of Clinical Record
Diagnosis
- DSM
Clinical Record: Elements of Clinical Record
Master Treatment Plan
- (what are we doing to treat it?)
Clinical Record: Elements of Clinical Record
Progress Notes
- (occur after every session, outline)