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Module 9: Designing and Facilitating Rehabilitation Groups · Lesson 3 of 3
Thursday, 4:40 p.m. A participant is sitting across from you, your supervisor wants three notes before you leave, and the answer you need is not in any binder on the shelf. This lesson is the part of the job nobody handed you in orientation.
Group notes must be individual notes.
Each participant's note names the group topic, that participant's specific behavior and response, prompting level, and the plan objective advanced. Identical notes across members are an audit finding.
Keep a facilitator log of the curriculum delivered; it supports every individual note you write.
Every statement below is labeled so you know what is binding regulation, what is only proposed, what is professional guidance, and what is our house standard.
Group services still require individualized documentation: what this participant did, toward which objective, with what response.
Never paste the same group note into eight charts. Write the shared curriculum once and the individual response eight times.
Describing what you did without describing what the participant did.
Do this instead — Record the intervention and the participant's observable response to it.
Treating regulation as a filing chore separate from practice.
Do this instead — Let the required elements shape the session itself, so documentation writes itself.
Practical example
Instead of 'met with participant to discuss goals,' write: 'Reviewed the transportation objective; participant identified the #22 route unassisted and named one back-up plan. Verbal prompt needed once. Next session: practice the transfer at Mondawmin.'
Key takeaways
Bring your answers to supervision — the case-study workspace in this module saves written notes to your account.
4 questions drawn from a bank of 7 · 75% to pass · instant feedback on every answer
1. A colleague does this: Describing what you did without describing what the participant did. What should they do instead?
2. How should you treat this statement? "Never paste the same group note into eight charts. Write the shared curriculum once and the individual response eight times."
3. A colleague does this: Treating regulation as a filing chore separate from practice. What should they do instead?
4. Which statement is a key takeaway from "Documenting Group Services"?