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Ethics Training #1: Writing Useful, Ethical, & Efficient Session Notes (2 mornings, December 2025).

Date & Time: December 12 & 15, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (MT). Dawn/DPS will share strategies for completing session notes that offer continuation of care and involve the client in the charting process. Will also offer recommendations for shifting away from the medical charting method.

Ethics Training #1: Writing Useful, Ethical, & Efficient Session Notes (2 mornings, December 2025).
Ethics Training #1: Writing Useful, Ethical, & Efficient Session Notes (2 mornings, December 2025).

Time & Location

Dec 12, 2025, 9:00 a.m. MST – Dec 15, 2025, 1:00 p.m. MST

Online (via Zoom)

About the event

Welcome! An ethics PD training event with Dr. Dawn McBride and the DPS team are well known for overdelivering - packed with ample information presented in a dynamic, fast-paced style. During the training, you will be encouraged to "take what fits -and ditch or modify" any of Dawn's and/or the DPS team's material since there are no shoulds - just ideas and recommendations designed to increase your efficiency and effectiveness in writing session notes.


A. CONTEXT to the ETHICS TRAINING SERIES:


  • THIS TRAINING --> Part #1 of 3 (WRITING ETHICAL SESSION NOTES) focuses on helping front-line counselling staff write session notes that are ethical, useful, meaningful, transparent, and efficient (ideally, written in under 5 minutes). This is the event you are reading about. By the way, the phrase "write smarter, not longer" comes from the work of Reamer, 2005.


  • Part #2 of 3 (ENHANCING YOUR CONSENT FORM & PROCESSES) explores…



Tickets

  • General Admission

    Sale ends

    Dec 15, 12:00 a.m. MST

    This detailed training focuses on refining one's therapy session notes so they are brief, meaningful, relational, transparent, and ethical.

    $280.00

    +$14.00 GST

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