<h1>Goal setting in the therapy process</h1>
A therapist’s daily routine does not include only the therapy sessions, as many may believe. The professional responsibilities of therapists, cutting across all specialties, essentially involve extensive documentation work that incorporates record-keeping, collecting, organizing and storing of data, etc.
So, after completing the evaluation process and recording the areas the patient is under or overperforming, the next stage is setting goals. To do so, we take note of the areas in which the patient underperformed.
While this stage often confuses younger therapists, it is also a very time-consuming process both for their amateur and experienced counterparts.
The Synopsis app has been designed to facilitate the work of the therapist.
The way the process of setting goals is done through the app is easy and fast. After entering the evaluation results and the areas of underperformance, the therapist can choose the goals.
Initially, long-term goals are chosen. For example, for an occupational therapist, autonomy in clothing is a long-term goal. She then chooses the activities needed to achieve this goal, which are typically the short-term goals. In the example below, we would choose various activities, such as “wearing a shirt/pair of pants,” etc.
Since the therapist has immediate access to a detailed list of goals, goal setting can be completed in a few minutes with a quick search, either by writing a word or using some filters.
With a test of our app, you can see for yourself in practice how much your daily life can be facilitated and work streamlined.
From the Synopsis Team

Goal setting in the therapy process

<h1>The importance of communication among therapists</h1>
The responsibilities of professional therapists are wide-ranging, and they typically include assessments, sessions, parent briefings, goal setting, and preparation of progress reports. However, a very important and unmistakable aspect of our profession is maintaining constant communication with our colleagues and the interdisciplinary team.
Most of the time, we come across patients who join more than one treatment program, and this includes children and adults. Thus, the therapists working with the same patients, besides conducting one-to-one communication with them, must necessarily build an interactive link with the person in charge of the specialty. It is usually done in person, over the telephone, or through written notes in the patient’s file.
Though it may sound easy, those of us working in the special education sector must be aware that it is far from so. It happens very often that the therapist does not have enough time to write notes, work the same hours as her colleague, or cannot manage to extract time outside work hours to communicate over the telephone. It’s also observed that with so many people working together, vital information originating from different chats is lost altogether.
So, could there be a solution? The answer is an emphatic YES, thanks to the Synopsis app. Through the app, a therapist can easily and quickly communicate with colleagues by simply pressing a few buttons.
This app is packed with some impressive features such as:
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<li>The therapist-user can share a patient’s profile with a colleague, irrespective of whether the latter is registered on the app or not.</li>
<li>The colleague can access all the information the therapist has recorded, such as evaluation, goal setting, progress and performance of the patient, and even the comments regarding sessions.</li>
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The Synopsis app, besides enabling easier communication within a team of therapists, also saves time and reduces extra work burden for an individual therapist, thereby resulting in stress-free duty hours.
A demonstration test will convince you!
From the Synopsis Team