Counseling Function: Treatment Planning and Documentation
A detailed, 10-hour course that provides in-depth knowledge on issues related to the counseling functions of treatment planning and documentation. This course has been designed to address the art as well as the science of treatment planning, as well as the need counselors have in documenting critical information in the client record.   

Goals/Objectives

By participating in this DLC, the trainee will:

  1. Identify critical issues of the assessment stage;

  2. Examine elements that make up a good assessment;

  3. Evaluation both the art and science of the interviewing process;

  4. Review key decision making elements of the treatment plan formulation process;

  5. Learn to write problem statements as well as clinical summaries;

  6. Understand the implementation process of treatment planning;

  7. Learn the differences between goals, objective, and interventions;

  8. Identify key elements of the documentation process;

  9. Review formats for documentation.

Your Course Instructor:
Jim Jensen, MS
 

Jim Jensen, M.S., began his work in the behavioral health field in 1974.  During the past thirty years he has worked in the U.S. and abroad in a variety of clinical, consulting, and administrative positions.  In 1982 he co-founded a residential addictions treatment facility in Great Britain.  During this period Jim also assisted with the production of an Al-Anon film and consulted with the British government on the development of their national drug policy. 

Throughout the 1990’s Jim worked as a consultant and trainer while conducting numerous training events throughout the U.S., including the 1991 NAADAC professional convention. He has extensive experience in consultation to Native American addiction programs as well.  Jim published several times in trade magazines and produced a companion training video on clinical documentation. 

Jim holds master’s degrees in Organizational Development and Community Counseling and is dually licensed as an addiction’s counselor and clinical professional counselor.  He is currently working as a program/training supervisor for a behavioral health organization that provides a variety of community-based, therapeutic services to children and adolescents. Jim has also been a program surveyor for CARF-International since 1994.