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Documentation Challenges in Behavioral Health (Complex Documentation Decisions)

Documentation Challenges in Behavioral Health (Complex Documentation Decisions)
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Specifications

Format: Live Online Webinar
CE Hours: 0

Description and Schedule

This course is a live, interactive webinar held on February 28, 2025, from 10am-5pm Eastern Standard Time.

This reduced price webinar does not offer CE Credits. The same live event is available for purchase and offers 6 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians.  See "related products" below.

Registration closes at midnight (EST) the day before the event

Behavioral health practitioners face complex documentation decisions that can have truly profound consequences. When should you be vague in your clinical notes, considering who might review your records down the road? When would such vagueness be ill-advised? Who should have access to your clinical notes? How should you respond to a subpoena of your records when clients do not consent to disclosure? What federal laws govern clients’ access to electronic records?

Substandard documentation can harm clients and expose practitioners to the risk of ethics complaints and litigation. Skilled documentation can enhance the quality of care and prevent adverse outcomes if practitioners are named as defendants in lawsuits or respondents in licensing board complaints. The reality is that the quality of practitioners' documentation often determines the outcome of these legal proceedings. This course will include a succinct overview of complex documentation challenges in the behavioral health professions. Dr. Frederic Reamer will highlight key decisions practitioners make regarding the purposes, content, wording, storage, and disclosure of documentation. Case examples and risk management protocols will be included.

Schedule: (listed in Eastern Standard Time)

  • 10:00 am - 10:50 am Lecture
  • 10:50 am - 11:00 am Q&A
  • 11:00 am - 11:05 am Break
  • 11:05 am - 11:50 am Lecture
  • 11:50 am - 12:00 pm Q&A
  • 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm Break
  • 12:05 pm - 12:50 pm Lecture
  • 12:50 pm - 1:00 pm Q&A
  • 1:00 pm - 1:40 pm Lunch
  • 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm Lecture
  • 2:30 pm - 2:40 pm Q&A
  • 2:40 pm - 2:45 pm Break
  • 2:45 pm - 3:40 pm Lecture
  • 3:40 pm - 3:50 pm Q&A
  • 3:50 pm - 3:55 pm Break
  • 3:55 pm - 4:50 pm Lecture
  • 4:50 pm - 5:00 pm Q&A

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this training, professionals will be able to do the following:

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the diverse purposes of documentation.
  • Address documentation challenges related to client privacy, confidentiality, and privileged communication.
  • Identify the implications of skilled documentation for risk management in behavioral health.
  • Implement ethics-informed documentation strategies to protect clients and prevent lawsuits and licensing board complaints.

Instructor

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Frederic G. Reamer, Ph.D.

Frederic Reamer is professor emeritus in the graduate program, School of Social Work, Rhode Island College, where he has been on the faculty since 1983. His teaching and research focus on professional ethics, criminal justice, mental health, health care, and public policy. Dr. Reamer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings. He chaired the national task force that wrote the Code of Ethics adopted by the National Association of Social Workers in 1996 and served on the code revision task force. Dr. Reamer also chaired the national task force sponsored by the National Association of Social Workers, Association of Social Work Boards, Council on Social Work Education, and Clinical Social Work Association that developed technology standards for the profession. Dr. Reamer has lectured nationally and internationally on social work and professional ethics, including in India, China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and in various European nations. His books include Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions; Social Work Values and Ethics; Risk Management in Social Work; The Social Work Ethics Casebook; Ethical Standards in Social Work; Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services; Ethics and Risk Management in Online and Distance Behavioral Health; Moral Distress and Injury in Human Services; and The Social Work Ethics Audit, among others. Dr. Reamer has served as an expert witness in many court and licensing board cases throughout the United States.

Read more about Dr. Reamer here.

CE Hours

This reduced price webinar does not offer CE credits, just great content.

The same live event is available for purchase and offers 6 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians.  See "related products" below.

Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of attendance to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.

How to Attend

Register on the website before midnight the day of the event. In order to attend, you are required to:

  1. login and access the direct link to the webinar through your account
  2. your attendance is marked automatically when you use the direct link and attend fully
  3. complete a post-test with a passing score of 80% or higher (which can be retaken until passed), and complete a course evaluation
  4. collect your certificate of completion on your account after steps 1-3 are completed

Recordings are not provided to webinar registrants. No refunds are offered to those who do not attend.

Directions for completing a course and collecting CEs can be found here

Enroll in the webinar by adding it to the cart and proceeding through the check out process. Create an account (or login to yours) during the checkout process.

Prepare: Download Zoom software. Participants must use a device that is connected to adequate internet speed with a camera, microphone and speakers (or headset).

Attend: At least 15 minutes before the designated start time, login to your account on the website. Go to "My Courses", click on the title of the webinar. The link for the webinar will be listed in the course content.

Attendance is recorded automatically when you use the direct link and attend the full event.

Agreement

By registering for this event you are agreeing to the following:

24 hour notice is required if you are not able to make it to a live event. Recordings are not provided to webinar registrants.

To update and test using Zoom.us/test before the event to ensure you are ready for the event.

Since this is a live interactive event it means that your interaction during the event is expected.  Your name and image will be visible to other participants during the live event. You will NOT be included in any recording made.

An evaluation must be completed within one week of the event. Continuing Education credit(s) cannot be issued unless you attend the event and the evaluation is submitted.  (Evaluation is not mandatory for APA hours)

Partial CE credits are not possible; therefore you are required to be present throughout the event in order to receive CE credits.

Respect all other participants during the event as though you would if you were sitting with the other attendees at a conference table:

  • Dress appropriately
  • Be in a private location void of distractions
  • Do not multitask
  • Do not drive during an event
  • Remain on mute unless you are sharing with the group

Closed Captions

Closed captioning is offered for all live webinar participants.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods

This is a live, interactive webinar

Course Policies

Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities

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This course includes closed captioning.

Cancellation Policy

Live webinars and live onsite courses: Refunds are only allowed prior to the date of the live event/course.  There is a 10% service fee for refunds.  

Grievance Policy

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Communication

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