 Progress notes…in the helping field we certainly do hear that term a lot. Therapists everywhere rely on progress notes to record and manage client records as service unfolds. Every session, from one to the next, reveals client challenges and progress. Documenting progress notes help monitor the details of these sessions, help collect clinical information, and highlight those challenges and/or progress seen in treatment, ultimately paving the direction of future treatment. Reality is that therapists will have multiple clients in a day, in which progress notes help keep information current, individualized, and organized.

Sometimes unknown, is the fact that there are different formats that can be used to structure progress notes. Three, best practice, progress note formats, may vary depending on your region, include the **DAP** (Data, Assessment, Plan), the **SOAP** (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) and the **BIRP** (Behavior, Intervention, Response and Plan).

Regardless of which format is used the progress note should still capture key elements; 1) Important gathered information about presenting problem or behaviors, 2) Assessment inclusive of your professional opinion regarding how the session went or your interpretation, techniques and methods used during the session, and the responses received to the therapy as a whole, and 3) Addressing the next objectives.

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