Book description
The Couples Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner, Second Edition
contains complete prewritten session and patient presentation
descriptions for each behavioral problem in The Couples Psychotherapy
Treatment Planner, Second Edition.
The prewritten progress notes can be easily and quickly adapted to fit
a particular client need or treatment situation.
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Saves you hours of time-consuming paperwork, yet offers the
freedom to develop customized progress notes
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Organized around 35 behaviorally based presenting problems,
including loss of love and affection, depression due to
relationship problems, jealousy, job stress, financial conflict,
sexual dysfunction, blame, and intimate partner violence
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Features over 1,000 prewritten progress notes (summarizing
patient presentation, themes of session, and treatment delivered)
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Provides an array of treatment approaches that correspond with
the behavioral problems and DSM-IV-TR™ diagnostic
categories in The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner,
Second Edition
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Offers sample progress notes that conform to the requirements of
most third-party payors and accrediting agencies, including CARF,
The Joint Commission (TJC), COA, and the NCQA
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Presents new and updated information on the role of
evidence-based practice in progress notes writing and the special
status of progress notes under HIPAA
Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr., PhD
, is the Series Editor for the bestselling PracticePlanners®. Since
1971, he has provided professional mental health services to both
inpatient and outpatient clients. He was the founder and director of
Psychological Consultants, a group private practice in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, for twenty-five years. He is the author or coauthor of over
forty books and conducts training workshops for mental health
professionals around the world.
David J. Berghuis, MA, LLP, is in private practice and has
worked in community mental health for more than a decade. He is also
coauthor of numerous titles in the PracticePlanners® series.
