Therapy Notes: 5 Tips for Clinicians Documenting Gray Areas: Risk Assessment for “Medium Risk” Clients All counselors understand that high risk situations, such as a client reporting suicidal thoughts, require significant and timely therapy notes. However, what about the gray areas we encounter on a daily basis? The situations that linger and don’t quite meet […]
Suicidal Ideation: How to Document
Suicidal Ideation: 4 Documentation Tips What to Write When a Client Tells You They Are Contemplating Suicide When a client expresses suicidal ideation i.e., a client tells you they no longer want to live and is able to describe how they would end their life, most counselors go into a place of both hyperfocus and multitasking. They […]
Social Work Internship: 12th Week
The other day at my placement was particularly difficult for me. One of my clients, let’s call her S, came in after having cut herself a few days earlier and as I questioned her, I learned that she had some suicidal ideation. In layman’s terms, this means that she expressed some wishes or fantasies about […]
