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Hello, mental health professionals! Do you know all of the available progress note types? And which do you use and why? Our Ted Faneuff LISW-S, LMSW, LCSW, MBA, and Alena Miklasova, just created a 'master' article to help you consider the benefits of each note template – SOAP, DAP, BIRP, and more. We'd love to know if this resonates with you and how many different templates you use regularly. https://lnkd.in/epUvw6Gf #progresssnotes #documentation #AInotes

Guess who’s been talking about the use of AI in mental health practices and its impact on addressing provider burnout? We’re thrilled to share that our Head of Clinical Operations spent some time on the Practice of the Practice podcast! Joe Sanok, an author, podcaster, and consultant shares his therapist and counselor knowledge when discussing the concerns and benefits of how AI notes can help mental health professionals. Here's a link to the show: https://lnkd.in/epcJTQD2 Please rate and review the podcast! Our Ted Faneuff will so appreciate it as it was his very first podcast interview. 🙏🏼 Go, Ted Faneuff LISW-S, LMSW, LCSW, MBA! PS – Practice the Practice is one of the Top 50 Podcasts worldwide with over 100,000 monthly downloads. #mentalhealth #podcast #AI #documentation

Hola! We now support more languages. Woop! Upheal can now capture therapy and coaching sessions held in Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Mandarin, and Hindi. We're muy excited! The notes themselves will still be in English at this point, but we're also working on providing them in these languages. Do you hold sessions in any of these languages? Or do you know a fellow therapist who does? Please spread the word, because we'd love your feedback. Adiós for now 👋

🤝 Today, we're thrilled to announce our partnership with Alma. 🤝 Their mission is to simplify access to high-quality, affordable mental health care and we're proud to be able to help with that by powering their new AI-driven feature, Note Assist, which will soon be available to the network of 22,000 therapists. By helping to create session notes in the background, we'll be saving therapists hours of admin time, allowing for deeper client focus and potentially even improved client outcomes. Therapists can simply review and edit – no more starting from scratch! Following an extensive pilot and deep teamwork for over a year, we're excited to see the impact of our collaboration. Thank you, Alma, for this opportunity to do something great together. #partnership #AInotes #mentalhealth #therapynotes

A review of Upheal! 💜 Dr. Maelisa McCaffrey is not affiliated with Upheal so we’re grateful for this objective appraisal. 👏🏼 What we did well: Our statements are insightful and we create excellent session summaries. The Assessment and Plan sections were beautifully written and covered complex psychological concepts. Where information wasn't discussed the AI didn’t make things up, but said so. The MSE included on-point criteria for diagnosis and a risk assessment. The Plan had bullet point formatting and great suggestions for following up. It used CBT-sounding language which could be useful for insurance companies. Seemed very promising for supervision, thanks to its transcript. Where we could improve: The wordiness of our notes – we’re launching an AI commands feature soon to allow everyone to choose their wordiness style. Our Interventions section - Yes, we’re with you Dr. Maelisa, improved interventions are coming very soon. Clearer instructions – We’re sorry that you had trouble with our audio recorder, it’s meant for in-person sessions and that's why it didn't pick up the audio from the same device! You can use our extension instead or record it on your phone or another secondary device. Thank you for trying Upheal! 💜 #AInotes #therapynotes #AIprogressnotes #AIdocumentation #AInotesreview https://lnkd.in/eJns52xJ

#mentalhealthawarenessmonth Learning #4: Mental health professionals often view their mental health problems as a weakness and try to remain silent. 😢 We want to raise awareness for those who do so much of the mental health heavy-lifting for us all. Yes, we're all struggling, but therapists don't feel able to admit or search for help. According to a survey from the American Psychological Association (APA), nearly half of mental health professionals who experience a mental health disorder do not seek help. Half of those clinicians were experiencing suicidal ideations – and yet they were not open to talking about their thoughts and feelings! We must make things safer and reduce stigma. For surely no one benefits if the world's therapists are all burned out. Understandably, clinicians must be mentally healthy to help others. Yet it's also understandable, that they would be affected by hearing repeated trauma. Patients are presenting with more severe symptoms, certain disorders are increasing in frequency, and the average period spent treating a patient is growing longer, placing a strain on psychologists’ workloads and limiting access to care. Therapists should be able to share when they are feeling overworked and overburdened or suffering from second-degree trauma without judgement. https://lnkd.in/grsXNCnN

#mentalhealthawarenessmonth Learning #3: Therapists need to monitor their own well-being and be aware of triggers. It's okay to set boundaries. You deserve the same care you give your clients! And by doing that, your care quality actually rises. So, dear mental health professionals, please don't forget about you. And if you can, create a diverse caseload – it's been associated with lower levels of vicarious trauma. https://lnkd.in/emazkT6F #therapists #therapistselfcare #therapistmentalhealth

#mentalhealthawarenessmonth Learning # 2: Time spent in R&D activities positively predicts compassion satisfaction. In other words, time spent away from direct client work helps therapists bring balance to their work life. Meaning – that therapists need time off to rest and recover! Read more 💜: https://lnkd.in/emazkT6F #wesupporttherapists #mentalhealth #ainotes #therapy

#mentalhealthawarenessmonth Learning #1: therapists are even more at risk than the general population. Understandable? Absolutely. Yet according to an APA survey, nearly half of MHPs who experience a mental health disorder don't seek help. Yikes. It's not an unpredictable stat; of course an emotionally demanding job will take a toll on mental health, and yet... why are we surprised that overworked therapists are affected too? Here's an interesting finding for our LinkedIn community: research shows that therapists who feel supported by management and colleagues have higher compassion satisfaction – not just compassion fatigue. That means, when faced with trauma clients they will feel the positive effects of helping, not just experience the effects of secondary trauma. So, therapists, in terms of psychology practices, look for somewhere you feel truly supported! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/emazkT6F #therapistmentalhealth #therapy #AInotes #mentalhealth #therapistsconnect #supportingtherapists

AI has huge potential in mental health. Like using it together with VR in exposure therapy to expose clients to phobias in a safe way while monitoring their physiological and psychological responses. Imagine how easily VR could replicate a tall mountain edge, a scary spider, or a dark corridor in a controlled, incremental way. It could even accentuate different sensory modalities – allowing the client to hear a noise, see an image, smell a smell... all based on the therapist's knowledge of the client's story. That said: not all clients respond well to exposure therapy (f.e., trauma clients) and how can we predict reactions when doing this for the very first time? While we are proponents of in-the-loop therapy (no autonomous entity replacing the therapist) we do see benefits to using this technology IF administered together with years of human experience, therapy know-how, and empathy. And thankfully, the image quality isn't THAT high yet. What are your thoughts about AI and exposure work? https://lnkd.in/egmNiH7B #AI #exposuretherapy #therapists #therapy #mentalhealth #technology