Paperwork for Proper Work

Documentation to Guide the Recovery Journey

PROTECT Week Four: Document Meaningful Narratives

How to use documentation to enhance safety?

Gain Knowledge:

What to document, when and where?
What is essential, what is desirable and what is aspirational?
What makes a narrative meaningful?
What is a therapeutic letter?

Develop Understanding:

Who is the primary beneficiary of documentation?
Who should it be targeted at? How can the remit be increased?
How can documentation contribute to safety?
How can documentation support an individual recovery journey?
What is the impact of legislation and compensation claims on documentation?
Why capture in documentation the thinking of the assessing practitioner?
How do you demonstrate that you have assessed and managed risk competently?

Refresh Skills:

How to create a mindset shift from unhelpful defensive documentation to one which supports positive risks for the recovery journey?
How to document the risk response balance sheet?
How to document risk and safety reformulation?
How to describer risk, options available for mitigation, rational for decision, explanation of what might change and who needs to know?

Therapeutic Letters: Designed to crystallise deep empathy and relational safety for the suicidal mind, the letter captures drivers of the current situation and how they could overcome the challenges ahead.

Key Concept

NOTES: A framework designed to demonstrate that documentation is fit for purpose both from a patient and practitioner perspective (Narratives, options appraisal, time bound, escalation, share).

Key Concept

Narratives: A meaningful narrative written in a person centred fashion and coproduced can be empowering and help forge ahead with their recovery journey. Adds considerably more value than check lists.