Psychiatry/Psychotherapy SOAP note TEMPLATE
Patient Name: XXX
MRN: XXX
Date of Service:
01-27-2020
Start Time:
End Time:
10:00
10:54
Billing Code(s):
90213, 90836
(Be sure to include strictly psychotherapy codes or both E&M and add on psychotherapy codes
if prescribing provider visit)
Accompanied by:
Brother
CC: Follow-up appt. for counseling
HPI: One week from inpatient care to current partial inpatient care daily individual
psychotherapy session and extended daily group sessions
S- Patient states that he generally has been doing well with depressive and anxiety symptoms
improved but he still feels down at times. He states he is sleeping better, achieving 7-8 hours of
restful sleep each night. He states he feels the medication is helping somewhat and without any
noticeable side-effects.
Crisis Issues: He states he has no suicide plan and has not thought about suicide since the
recent attempt. He states has no access to prescription medications, other than the fluoxetine. He
believes the classes he participated in while inpatient have helped him with coping mechanisms.
Reviewed Allergies: NKA
Current Medications: Fluoxetine 10mg daily
ROS: no complaints
OVitals: T 98.4, P 82, R 16, BP 122/78
PE: (not always required and performed, especially in psychotherapy only visits)
Heart- RRR, no murmurs, no gallops
Lungs- CTA bilaterally
Skin- no lesions or rashes
Labs: CBC, lytes, and TSH all within normal limits
Results of any Psychiatric Clinical Tests: BAI=34
MSE:
Gary Davis, a 36-year-old white male, was disheveled and unkempt on presentation to the
outpatient office. He was wearing dirty khaki pants, an unbuttoned golf shirt, and white shoes
and appeared slightly younger than his stated age. During the interview, he was attentive and
calm. He was impatient, but polite in his interactions with this examiner. Mr. Davis reported that
today was the best day of his life, because he had decided he was going to be better and start his
own company. His affect was labile, but appropriate to the content of his speech (i.e., he became
tearful when reporting he had “bogeyed number 15” in gold yesterday). His speech was loud,
pressured at times then he would quickly gain composure to a more neutral tone. He exhibited
loosening of associations and flight of ideas; he intermittently and unpredictably shifted the topic
of conversation from golf, to the mating habits of geese, to the likelihood of extraterrestrial life.
Mr. Davis described grandiose delusions regarding his sexual and athletic performance. He
reported no auditory hallucinations. He was oriented to time and place. He denied suicidal and
homicidal ideation. He refused to participate in intellectual- or memory-related portions of the
examination. Reliability, judgment, and insight were impaired.
A – with (ICD-10 code)
Differential Diagnoses:
1. choose 3 differential diagnoses
2.
3.
Definitive Diagnosis:
Major Depressive Disorder, recurrent, without psychotic features F33.4
Generalized Anxiety Disorder F41.1
P- Continue Fluoxetine increasing dose to 20mg.
Continue outpatient counseling: partial inpatient program continued with individual and group
sessions
Psychotherapy Modality used: CBT
Interventions/Homework: Two distortion worksheets, keep track of physical symptoms of
anxiety or depression and triggers associated
Educations: Discussed smoking cessation
Reviewed medication side effects and adherence importance
Follow-up: in one week or earlier if any depressive symptoms worsen.
Outpatient counseling sessions to continue weekly until further notice.
Referrals: none at this time
Provider Signature: ANNA SMITH, PMHNP-BC
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