Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Play Therapy Progress Notes

Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence

There is a lot of terrible information being shared in the mental health community about writing progress notes.

Some information is based on fear, some information is based on misunderstanding about progress notes, and some information is based on minimizing the importance of progress notes. (Ouch!) 😲

Over the last 30+ years in the mental health field, I’ve heard and seen most of the terrible information being shared about writing progress notes.

Not all the information is terrible, and some of the information has some valid aspects to it.

Are you struggling to write play therapy progress notes?

Join me for this free podcast, I’ll share four mistakes play therapists make when writing progress notes and suggestions for writing sound, ethical progress notes.

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Chapters

1. Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Play Therapy Progress Notes (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:01)

3. Today's topic (00:00:57)

4. First mistake to avoid (00:06:01)

5. Golden thread analogy (00:12:51)

6. Minimum information needed when writing progress notes (00:18:55)

7. Second mistake to avoid (00:20:31)

8. Third mistake to avoid (00:22:13)

9. Fourth mistake to avoid (00:29:44)

10. Recap of today's discussion (00:36:10)

11. Outro (00:40:38)