How to write therapy treatment goals
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- There are only two goals every counseling treatment plan needs! Whether you work with insurance or not, Dr. Maelisa McCaffrey gives you a formula for writing easy therapy treatment goals.
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As always, Maelisa encourages you to simplify your mental health documentation while still making it meaningful to your counseling or therapy work. These two goals will apply to most, if not all, of your therapy treatment plans. But this formula is still personalized enough to use even if you work with Medicare or Medicaid treatment plans.
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00:00 Introduction
00:28 The 2 goals you need
00:59 Client 1 example 1
01:45 SMART goals
01:57 Client 1 example 2
02:17 Mistakes to avoid
03:25 Client 2 example 1
03:57 Client 2 example 2
04:40 Simplifying treatment plans
05:17 Goals vs objectives
05:47 Goals in an EHR
A goal is “what” you want to accomplish, an objective is “how” to accomplish it. Nice content…thank you.
Personally, I like to keep it more simple with just a goal but if it works, keep on doing it :)
OMG- I love this, thanks for sharing.
hehehe...I need 3 for this project I'm working on, but this certainly gets me moving in the direction I to be going in, Thank you so much for your good insights.
A thousand thank yous for simplifying this process!
Thank you!! Such great advice and helpful tips!!!
Love your videos ❤ Thanks! So very helpful.
Thank you Maelisa!
Thats a neat way to think about goals. Reducing symptoms and increasing coping skills
This is wonderful, thank you
I've been a therapist for 18 years and I got a "take away" from this! THANK YOU! :) This field changes so much. It's nice to have a "go to" for the latest. Good stuff!
Yes, we are always learning and adapting! And I suspect this will continue indefinitely.
Sweet and to the point. Thank you, Maelisa! Starting my residency soon :)
Wow! Thanks for this. Appreciated that it was short but packed with specific guideline followed with tons of examples! Made my day!! 😊🙏🏼
Glad it helped!
Thanks Maelisa!
This is exactly what I needed and so appreciate you putting this video out. I’m one of those clinicians who tends to over complicate goals, & I love that I now have a far easier way to do it that will still meet insurance requirements.
My head always tells me in order to meet insurance requirements, I need more detail, not less. This inevitably leads to writing way too much and feeling chronically overwhelmed & being behind with my documentation. This strategy will help tremendously. Thank you!!
So glad to hear that!
I can SO relate to your comment! I am 3 months behind with my documentation right now! I am WAY over-thorough!
@@saras.2173 - Thanks for sharing so that I don’t feel like I’m the only one. 🤦🏻♀️ I should’ve mentioned that my ADHD probably plays a big role in my struggle as well.
OMG, thank you for all the info and especially the part about goals and objectives! that has always been difficult for me but not now. 🙂
Happy to help!
I joined Crash Course several years ago, which has been SO helpful to create a GIRP template (with check boxes; and /or copy & paste) that works for me.
I’m back for tx plan simplification. I LOVE 2 goals … and the “crickets are fantastic!!! “Objectives” have always driven me absolutely mad.
I use a (cut /paste) version of client participation in the “Plan” section of my notes (thank you). I’ll be adding it to the tx plan (thank you, again)
Your SMART goals are so streamlined 😊
Thank you Maelissa for these Amazing resources!
Thank you for sharing! I'm so glad the Crash Course was helpful!!!
I am an MSW student. I find your videos to be informative, succinct, pleasant, and entertaining. You are a great teacher! Thank you so much. 😊 Now, I am a subscriber!
So glad they’re helpful and thanks for the kind words!
This might be a weird request, but can you do a video that contains a HYPNOSIS exercise that we can listen to that makes us want to do our notes? Or removes the mental block we feel when thinking about approaching that huge backlog of notes I have to get done?
It doesn’t matter if it’s you leading or reading the hypnotic script, or if you basically rip it off someone else’s channel. It would be SO appreciated! Thank you!
This is an awesome suggestion! I will have to figure this out since I would collaborate with someone who knows hypnosis to do that. Thank you for suggesting it!
Thank you for simplifying the process!!
If this is helpful to anyone else, I use a quote from the client in the treatment goal section of the treatment plan: ie "deal with my stress". It is an honest/realistic way for us to tie the client's reason for therapy to the specific objectives. It also elimiates redundancy and appeases insurance's desire for client quotes!
Great tip, thanks!!!
Came for the treatment goal tips, stayed for the Princess Bride references 🙂
Glad someone mentioned it ;)
Great video thank you! I’m a new sub 😊
Happy to have you here!
Hi Maelisa, your videos are so insightful and helpful. I am an intern in the field. I was wondering if you could talk about more examples for interventions in treatment?
I'll keep this in mind for future videos! Thanks :)
I have always enjoyed your videos and your content. Overall, I love the way you address treatment plans. I do disagree with the objectives-I think objectives are the steps to achieve the goal; and in many settings, goals and objective's are required whether they mean the same thing, most settings do not think so
Typically when they are both used, it's more in the context of "long-term" and "short-term" goals. And if anyone is working for an agency that requires both, they obviously have to follow those guidelines. I've actually never worked in any type of setting that required both, although I know it does exist. It is not usually a Medicare/Medicaid or other insurance requirement, and I think adding multiple steps adds too much complexity that is usually unnecessary. We want treatment plans that our clients can easily understand and that we can easily track. However, as with all of my advice, if it works for you then keep doing what works!
@@MaelisaMcCaffrey Thank you for the response. Long Term/Short term goals make's sense in terms of objectives. I know our EHR -Theranest has the treatment plans set up with Goals and Objectives too. I like the idea of what you shared -it's so much simpler than trying to come up with 3-5 objectives etc. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I learned during my internship that increasing communication skills isn't an authorized goal for insurance companies to reimburse for. But you wouldn't have used it as an example if it was something that was regularly denied. Can you please clarify?
Insurance companies don't have specific goals they authorize or don't authorize. It has more to do with whether or not the goal is 1) related to the diagnosis and 2) related to the impairment as a result of the diagnosis. For example, that would be a very relevant goal for someone with social anxiety who has trouble communicating with others and it is negatively impacting them at school or work.
Is this just for therapists? My therapist has asked me to watch this. Not sure why.
Yes, this video is meant for therapists so they can help clients with easily creating goals that also work for insurance companies.