Progress Notes Should Document the Duration, Frequency, and Severity of Symptoms

question 9

Multiple Choice

Progress notes should document the duration, frequency, and severity of symptoms clients report. Which of the following is NOT a good example of this type of documentation?

• A) Client reports mild depressed mood most days (or five out of seven days)
• B) Client reports one panic attack the past week, moderate severity
• C) Client reports feeling better since starting therapy
• D) Client reports decreased conflict with parents; two arguments past week

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Definitions:

Superego

A component of Freud's psychoanalytic theory representing the moral conscience and ideals acquired from society and parents.

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.

Pleasure Principle

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to the drive to seek immediate gratification of needs and desires, avoiding pain or discomfort.

Psychoanalytic

Pertaining to the theory and therapy developed by Sigmund Freud, which focuses on unconscious motivations and conflicts as drivers of human behavior.