Overview
Complete DSM-IV Support
Intelligent Symptoms and Goals
Treatment Plan Sections
CustomizationPM/2 Clinical Planner is designed to help providers generate treatment plans that can be submitted to managed care organizations, insurance carriers, and other third party payers. In addition, PM/2 Clinical Planner provides an efficient means of documenting your clinical work, through a straightforward, structured approach to planning treatment that is useful for trainees as well as independent, licensed professionals.
PM/2 Clinical Planner leads you through a series of windows, called "dialogs." Each dialog is designed to collect information pertaining to your patient's diagnosis and treatment requirements. Each dialog can be accessed at will, without the user having to go through all the entire series; or an "autostep" option can be used to assure that all areas of the plan are completed.
Once all necessary information has been collected, PM/2 Clinical Planner automatically generates a clear, elegantly formatted narrative report which can be printed out ready for submission, or saved to disk for further editing.
PM/2 Clinical Planner supports every DSM-IV diagnosis, including all child and adult diagnoses. If it is in the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it is in PM/2 Clinical Planner!
As of this writing, PM/2 Clinical Planner is also the ONLY treatment plan generator that fully supports every single optional or required DSM-IV specifier. For example, if you choose a diagnostic related to delusions, PM/2 Clinical Planner will automatically ask for a specifier (see picture). Since a specifier for delusions is optional in DSM-IV, you can chose a "None" option.
Let's take another example. If you click on the "Alcohol-Induced Psychotic Disorder, With Hallucinations..." diagnosis, the program will also prompt for a specifier, this time the onset: during intoxication or during withdrawal. But in this case, a specifier is required by DSM-IV and the program will require that you enter one.
PM/2 Clinical Planner's ability to distinguish between optional and required specifiers allows for greater accuracy in generating treatment plans and fewer trips to the DSM-IV manual to look things up.
Intelligent Symptoms and Goals
After you've selected the Axis I and Axis II diagnoses, you can also chose the relevant symptoms or goals. The choices that Clinical Planner presents you with are intelligent and based directly on the diagnoses selected.
Symptoms consist of scrolling lists and/or edit fields with helpful default descriptions already inserted. They are extensive. Goals consist of scrolling lists that can be customized. You can chose to have goals in a treatment plan listed freely or grouped by short term and long term.
Here's a list of all the different pieces of information that you can enter in PM/2 Clinical Planner:
Customization
- General Information (demographics)
- Axis I through Axis V
- Axis I and II Symptoms
- Initial Reasons for Treatment
- Functional Impairments (social, occupational, academic, recreational/self-care)
- Psychological Testing
- Mental Status (appearance, orientation, memory, motor behavior, conceptual disorganization, speech, mood, affect, suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, hallucinations/delusions, emotional contact/rapport, suspiciousness, and hostility)
- Prior Treatment (hospitalization and outpatient)
- Current Medication (medication, response, and results)
- Treatment (modalities, collateral, orientation, resistance, motivation, process, response, and gains)
- Adjunctive Therapy
- Justification to Continue Treatment
- Justification for Group Therapy
- Goals
- Custom Sections (up to 10)
A treatment plan can be customized in different ways. You can omit unneeded sections. You can also add custom sections or paragraphs. A custom section consists of one or more paragraphs with its own header. Custom paragraphs are just like custom sections but without a header. This allows you to append them at the end of any standard section.
Further, PM/2 Clinical Planner lets you add custom records to most of the lists that appear in the program. These include:
See Also
- Goals
- Functional Impairments (social, occupational, academic, recreational/self-care)
- Initial Reasons for Treatment
- Justification to Continue
- Justification for Group Therapy
- Process
- Speech
- Adjunctive Therapy
- Treatment Collateral
- Treatment Orientation
- Treatment Modalities
Frequently Asked Questions