Collaborative Documentation Impact on Mental Health Treatment

This report examines the use of collaborative documentation in community mental wellness centers, focusing on its impact on service delivery and client engagement. It highlights the benefits, such as improved time management, enhanced client participation, and increased clinical capacity. The report also addresses the limitations and criticisms of collaborative documentation, including concerns about billability and the challenges of immediate document creation. The advantages of this method in a mental health center are discussed, emphasizing clinical engagement, increased clinical capacity, improved safety of care, and effectiveness of care. The report references scholarly sources to support its claims and provides a comprehensive overview of collaborative documentation in the context of mental health services.

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For a service to be documented successfully on the same day, some key elements have to
exist. This will make the service be more sufficient and effective, it all starts from the quality of
the service delivery to the desired outcome. Time would be a very important element so that the
documentation can be done over the same day. This is explained by the fact that documentation
is timely, and rapid documentation leads to a successful service rendered in such cases where
time is of essence.
Client participation is also an element that cannot be assumed as it aids in the whole
process especially with the immediate feedback. During clients’ participation the clinician should
ensure that he or she position the desk properly and the seat which the client will be sitting on,
this will help maintain eye-contact which is an evidence that the client is concentrating and
hence the service is sufficient (Asan et al.,2014). The other factor would be the environmental
setting which should be conducive for both clinician and the client.
Collaborative Documentation standards is a procedure in which clinicians and their
clients cooperate in documentation of a current and reviewed valuations, fresh facilities plans,
assessment and advancement of notes-office created in the society with people and special
groups (Schmelter, 2013).
The community mental wellness centers have the role of providing support, education
and creating awareness of mental illness in the community. This is to eradicate stigmatization of
mentally ill persons in the society. In order to make the programme more successful, they have
utilized collaborative documentation to aid in the service delivery. The psychotherapist maintains
a form of record keeping inclusive of transparent notes on the progress of the client. This is done
in a collaborative manner with the client during the therapy sessions. This has helped in

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managing the time and serving many clients proficiently. The fact that the clients are actively
involved during the sessions and feedback from them is recorded helps in assessing the progress
in the community. Collaborative documentation has widely been used in community mental
wellness centers as it engages both the psychotherapist and the client.
According to the scholarly resources, collaborative documentation have numerous
benefits. It can save a lot of time by checking on documentation responsibilities before the client
leaves the premises relying on the circumstances of the practice as this leads to saving of time.
The other benefit accrues where practices are able to achieve their increasing performance
demands. Keeping their eyes focused on clinical work outcome. There is also better engagement
between the clients and the clinicians who are able to offer their perspectives in issues affecting
services and progress will to offer an attitude of kindness to important issues.
The proponents of collaborative documentation have similar views on its benefits, they
have a common view that this method helps in aiding the services since the client participation is
also included. The supporters claim that the feedback is very important as it help engage and
gage the patient’s performance. While the critiques who are against it have downplayed its
benefit in any society set-up. They claim that collaborative documentation is not billable and this
is obsolete as it should conform to current technology. This ends up not addressing the needs of
the clients as they are required.
Collaborative documentation also has limitations associated with it especially by those
who have been against it. Some say that witting could be a contemplative process and this can be
a challenge for providers if immediate creation of documents is needed. The other limitation is
based on the issue of collaborative Documentation being billable as standards do not allow

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charging of this type of documentation. It also requires an important change in thinking in order
to handle documentation.
The advantages of utilizing this method in a mental health Centre in any community
manifest itself in many ways. The Clinical Engagement provides an opportunity for the clients in
the community to feel more involved in the process of treatment. Most clients in a community
are made aware of their treatment plan and the outcomes as most clients do not know their
specific treatment plan in relation to the goals set owing to the lack of communication from the
clinicians on the progress issues (Stanhope, 2013). There is also increase in the clinical capacity
as this capacity is able to serve the increasing needs of the people in the community and
supporting access of the services by clients.
Safety of care has improved tremendously and this is evidenced by the outcome of the
collaborative documentation process. Problems relate to health issues such as skin illness and the
infections acquired during stay in hospital have been taken care of effectively giving a positive
outcome of the care programme measures. Effectiveness of care following quality practice care
and achieved outcomes. Timeliness of care outcome measures determine patient access to care
especially when people are many in an emergency department.

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References
Asan, O., & Montague, E. (2014). Dynamic modeling of patient and physician eye gaze
to understand the effects of electronic health records on doctor-patient communication and
attention. International Journal of Medical Informatics. Vol 83, 225-234.
Schmelter, B. (2013). Collaborative documentation gets you off the compliance treadmill.
Retrieved from TheNationalCouncil.org.

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Stanhope, V., Ingolia, C., Schmelter, B., & Marcus, S.C. (2013). Impact of person-
centered planning and collaborative documentation on treatment adherence. Psychiatric
Services, Vol 64, 1, 76-80.
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