When people engage in a helping conversation, there is often a sense that something special has taken place, that something has been made sense of in a new and useful way. However, this ‘sense of something’ often fades once the person leaves the consulting room. It is easy to forget the details of the conversation, and people often find that the problem re-asserts itself in a persistent and overbearing way, once they are outside of the therapy conversation.
In a different way, helpers can be burdened by the responsibility of record keeping, and find themselves reducing a useful conversation to a few lines of problem-saturated writing that may or may not accurately reflect the scope of the conversation.Ethical approaches to records invite us to consider the effect of what we write in a person or families record. This, along with time constraints and heavy case-loads invite us to consider the usefulness of in-session and collaborative note-making processes.
This workshop will introduce an insession note taking method that is ethical, informative and therapeutic. Participants will learn how to:
* Use note-taking to make over-whelming, long-standing problems manageable.
* Visually map the problem and problem effects to identify starting points for change.
* Use in-session notes to document strenghts and next steps.
* Practice ethical and collaborative record keeping.
Presenter: Bonnie Miller, M.S.W., R.S.W.
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