How therapists can talk to clients about medication while staying within their scope of practice: Lessons from the Lindsay Clancy trial
Court testimony in the Lindsay Clancy trial described a medication regimen involving more than a dozen prescriptions across several providers. Therapists don't prescribe but we're often the ones sitting with a client trying to make sense of a system that moves fast and explains little. Part 3 of a 3-part series on what's actually within scope when medication comes up in therapy sessions.
Document the thinking, not just the session: What the Lindsay Clancy trial can remind therapists about session notes
One defense attorney in the Lindsay Clancy trial called a clinician's documentation style "box-checking." Whatever the jury decides, that phrase should make any therapist pause — because most of us have written a note that was more checklist than clinical thinking. Part 2 of a 3-part series on how to document the "why” in therapy progress notes.
How do therapists accurately describe the work we’re qualified to do? Scope of practice in light of the Lindsay Clancy trial
Court testimony in the Lindsay Clancy trial has raised hard questions about scope of practice — not as an abstract ethics topic, but as something therapists have to navigate in real time, with real clients, often under real pressure to keep helping. Part 1 of a 3-part series.