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.