The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook: The Complete Paperwork Resource for Your Mental Health Practice

By Donald E. Wiger

Book Overview

All the forms, handouts, and records mental health professionals need to meet documentation requirements The paperwork required when providing mental health services continues to mount. Keeping records for managed care reimbursement, accreditation agencies, protection in the event of lawsuits, and to help streamline patient care in solo and group practices, inpatient facilities, and hospitals has become increasingly important. This updated and revised Third Edition provides you with a full range of forms, checklists, and clinical records essential for effectively and efficiently managing your practice. From intake to diagnosis and treatment through discharge and outcome assessment, The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook, Third Edition offers sample forms for every stage of the treatment process. Greatly expanded from the second edition, the book now includes twenty-six fully completed forms illustrating the proper way to fill them out, as well as fifty-two ready-to-copy blank forms. The included CD-ROM also provides these forms in Word format so you can easily customize them to suit your practice. With The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook, Third Edition , you'll spend less time on paperwork and more time with clients. Includes documentation for child, family, and couples counseling Updated for HIPAA compliance, as well as to reflect the latest JCAHO and CARF regulations New focus on clinical outcomes supports the latest innovations in evidence-based practice

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471689319
• ISBN13: 9780471689317
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

a useful guide

I can only use ideas of this book because I would need one which is more tailored towards the Australian mental health system. Nevertheless it is very useful for me to find documentation strategies for my newly set up private practice rooms. I would purchase this book again.

Great Book

I ordered this book five weeks ago and it was the best thing that I ever did for school. The book is helpful and can be used throughout ones career. There is so much information and every form imaginable you will need for counseling the drug dependent client with example forms as well. Excellent book even if you are not required to have this book, just get it anyway.

The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook

This sourcebook is the best one I have found to assist with beginning a clinical practice and producing legal documentation.

A must have...

This book was a life saver for me as I opened my solo practice this summer. Without it, I would have spent countless hours developing these forms myself. The feature that allows you to customize the forms is especially nice. I recommend this for new or veteran mental health workers.