Clinical documentation is complex and comes with a huge range of seemingly never-ending requirements, especially when working with clients who are minors.
Every interaction, appointment, and follow-up must be documented, including clinical justifications for chosen interventions, mental status evaluations, safety concerns, progress toward treatment goals, and much more. It's a balancing act of ensuring legal compliance, upholding ethical standards, and addressing the complexities of parental rights, confidentiality concerns, mandated reporting, and potential access by school staff – all while safeguarding the best interests of your young clients.
This intermediate to advanced training course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the unique challenges of documenting therapy with minors. It's a 3-hour comprehensive training that explores the latest research and best practices in child and adolescent mental health clinical documentation.
With Dr. Amy Marschall's expert guidance, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of special considerations surrounding confidentiality, privacy, safety, and medical necessity specific to working with children and adolescents. They will learn how to design treatment plans that meet legal and ethical standards and also cater to the unique developmental needs of their young clients. Through practical examples, participants will also learn how to complete intake notes, diagnostic conceptualizations, treatment plans, progress notes, safety plans, and more for child and adolescent clients while adhering to applicable laws, the professional code of ethics, and payer requirements.
By the end of the course, participants will be empowered to offer the best possible care while meeting all documentation requirements and ensuring their clients' privacy and safety are protected at every step. They will have the confidence and competence to streamline their documentation process, freeing up more time and energy to focus on what truly matters – helping young clients thrive.
This course is tailored for counselors, social workers, family therapists, play therapists, psychologists, school counselors, and any other mental health professionals who work with minor clients but who seek clarity and confidence in navigating the complexities of clinical documentation.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to unlock a smoother, more effective, and ethically sound approach to clinical documentation in your practice.
Enroll now and take the first step towards transforming your clinical practice and making a lasting impact on the lives of the children and adolescents you serve.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this training, professionals will be able to do the following:
- Design treatment plans and documentation of clinical interventions for minor clients that maintain legal and ethical standards.
- Assess concerns of confidentiality and privacy for children and teen clients, and construct office policies that uphold these ethical ideals while maintaining documentation standards.
- Accurately diagnose child and adolescent clients based on age and developmental level, with appropriate justification and documentation of symptoms.
This is a non-interactive, self-study course that offers over 3 hours of recorded video instruction, a post-test and a course evaluation.
Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.
How to Attend: Instructions for attending and completing a course can be found here.
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Dr. Amy Marschall, Psy.D.
Dr. Marschall earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut. She completed her pre-doctoral internship through the National Psychology Training Consortium and her post-doctoral residency at Family Psychological Center, PA.
Dr. Marschall has been in practice since 2016 and currently owns a private practice, RMH-Therapy, where she provides therapy primarily to children and adolescents and psychological evaluations. Her clinical specializations include trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming care, trauma therapy, autism, and ADHD.
She also provides ADHD assessments through ADHD Online and therapy services through Spring Health. She teaches continuing education through PESI, Spring Health, and the Telehealth Certification Institute.
Dr. Marschall is certified in telemental health and is the author of Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox and Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox: Volume 2.
She is also the author of the following:
- I Don’t Want To Be Bad: A CBT Workbook for Kids, Parents, and the Professionals who Help Them
- Clinical Documentation with Children and Adolescents
- A Year of Resiliency: 465 Journal Prompts to Become Your Strongest Self
- Armani Doesn’t Feel Well: A Book to Help Sick Kids
She created a website, Resiliency Mental Health, to provide resources for therapists and anyone who wants to learn more about mental health.
Disclosure Statement: The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 3 ethics continuing education hours of credit.
Counselors:
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Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.
Marriage and Family Therapists: Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations. You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025.
Social Workers:
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Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.
Addiction Professionals:
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This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits, effective 2/20/2024. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
Psychologists:
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Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.
Art Therapists: Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.
Other Professionals: This course qualifies for 180 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.
This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
