Audit-Proof Progress Notes: An In-Depth Look at Documentation and Record-Keeping in Private Practice ​

Course Description

Understanding the unique and important role that progress notes serve in documenting clinician-client interactions is essential for the private practitioner.  While students are shown how to examine clinical sessions through process recordings and employees learn to document clinical services from the organizations that employ them, where do clinicians in private practice get this crucial information?

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Outline key components of a mental health progress note in private practice

2. Identify and apply general documentation and record-keeping guidelines when drafting progress notes in private practice