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Top 8 Things to Include in Your Substance Abuse Counseling Notes

Top 8 Things to Include in Your Substance Abuse Counseling Notes

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | October 26, 2022

Counseling notes are a key component of offering therapy services to your patients. These notes contain important information about your patient that allows you to…

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How to Write DAP Notes

How to Write DAP Notes

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | October 11, 2022

How to Write DAP Notes In psychotherapy, you’ll find many different types of progress note formats. One popular approach uses data, assessment, and plan (DAP)…

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What Is CPT Code 96127 and How Does It Affect Your Income?

What Is CPT Code 96127 and How Does It Affect Your Income?

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | September 22, 2022

What is CPT Code 96127 and How Does it Affect Your Income? Brief behavioral assessments are a great way for behavioral health professionals and other…

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How to Write Progress Notes

How to Write Progress Notes

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | September 8, 2022

How to Write Progress Notes As a therapist, progress notes are necessary for you to track your patient’s progress and ensure they are receiving effective…

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How to Write Couples Therapy Notes

How to Write Couples Therapy Notes

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | August 24, 2022

Couples counseling differs from individual therapy because instead of dealing with one person’s issues or addiction, you’re working through two individuals’ needs and how those…

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What Out-of-Network Clinicians Need to Know About Insurance

What Out-of-Network Clinicians Need to Know About Insurance

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | August 18, 2022

An out-of-network provider is a clinician who has not signed a contract with a certain insurance plan to provide behavioral health or health care services…

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Recent DSM-5-TR Updates

Recent DSM-5-TR Updates

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | August 9, 2022

As a behavioral health professional, it’s essential to stay up-to-date on changes to the DSM-5 to diagnose patients accurately and help them understand themselves. With…

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Which EHR Is Right for My Practice?

Which EHR Is Right for My Practice?

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | July 15, 2022

An electronic health record (EHR) underpins the many tasks in healthcare practices, from recording progress notes to billing patients. Since practices have so much to…

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Types of Therapy Notes

Types of Therapy Notes

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | July 7, 2022

Types of Therapy Notes As a therapist or mental health professional, writing therapy notes is one of the most common, important parts of your career.…

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6 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Medical Transcribing Services

6 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Medical Transcribing Services

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | June 28, 2022

6 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Medical Transcribing Services Amidst record rates of burnout in healthcare, some practices have turned to medical transcription services to…

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Is Telehealth the New Norm?

Is Telehealth the New Norm?

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | June 23, 2022

Due to widespread lockdowns aimed at reducing the risk of community transmission of COVID-19, clinics across the world scrambled to find an effective way to…

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Understanding Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy for Treating ADD and ADHD

Understanding Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy for Treating ADD and ADHD

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | June 15, 2022

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), previously called attention-deficit disorder (ADD), is a chronic neurodevelopmental disorder that affects a person’s ability to sit still and pay attention and…

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Life Skill Activities for Group Therapy

5 Life Skills Activities for Group Therapy

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | June 3, 2022

5 Life Skills Activities for Group Therapy As a therapist, you can help teach individuals how to make daily tasks more manageable, which makes their…

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Adding and Updating Digital Contact Information in NPPES

Adding and Updating Digital Contact Information in NPPES

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | May 11, 2022

Behavioral health providers are no strangers to collaboration and patient file exchanges. Whether you were looking for another therapist’s help on a case or had…

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Tips for Effective Couple Therapy Sessions

14 Tips for Effective Couple Therapy Sessions

By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | April 27, 2022

14 Tips for Effective Couple Therapy Sessions Your role as a therapist is to maximize the value of your sessions, break ineffective patterns and help…

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