SOAP Notes for ABA Therapy Template
Keep your therapy notes organized with our SOAP Notes for ABA therapy template.
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What is an ABA Therapy SOAP Notes Template?
SOAP Notes are commonly used around the world in a wide variety of healthcare settings, including Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy. SOAP is an acronym that stands for the four headings used in SOAP Notes: Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan. Using this widespread acronym in your own clinical notes has many benefits, as we will discuss in future sections.
Carepatron has a vast community library of different clinical templates, designed to help practitioners from a wide range of healthcare specializations. Templates are super useful as you don’t have to start your clinical notes from scratch every time you write a new document. Our ABA Therapy SOAP Notes template has four headings and a header for the important client details.
This template is a downloadable resource for you to start taking SOAP Notes in your ABA Therapy practice, and this template is also available from within the Carepatron platform.
Take a look at this explainer video to see how you can start using ABA SOAP Notes in your practice.
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How to Use This SOAP Note Template for ABA Therapy
This template is very simple to use. The structure of the SOAP Notes for ABA template is just four headings, and for our ABA Therapists who travel to all different locations outside of an ABA clinic, we have added a space for the venue of the session as well as the time and duration of the session. These are all important details to include in your session notes and may become important in the future for legal or insurance purposes.
Once you have filled in the header information such as the patient’s name, session venue, and date, begin filling in the SOAP headings making up the body of the ABA Therapy SOAP Notes template.
Subjective
Information under the subjective heading may include your initial impression of your client’s presentation or anything reported to you by the client or support person relevant to their present condition.
Objective
The objective heading is for your reporting of the facts of the session. What did you do or say? What was your client’s response? How did you intervene? The ABC acronym can be useful here, standing for Antecedent- what happened before a behavior, Behavior- what did your client do, and Consequence- the response following the behavior.
Assessment
The assessment section is where you write your conclusions based on the information gathered in the first two sections.
Plan
And finally, the plan section is your next steps for your client as their ABA therapist- most likely including when and where you will see them next, and any plans for their future sessions.
ABA SOAP Note Example (Sample)
To illustrate how to use this ABA SOAP Note template, we have included an example ABA Therapy session note completed using our template.
While this example was typed using the interactive feature of our PDF template, you can print this out and write by hand if you prefer, or even use this template from within Carepatron itself.
Check out our ABA SOAP Note Example (Sample) Template here:
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Who Can Use this ABA Therapy Template?
This ABA therapy template is designed for use by anyone who routinely practices ABA therapy. This might be a:
- Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) or Board-Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA)
- Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)
- Trainee or student for either of the above.
Trainees may find using a template a good way to learn the SOAP Notes structure, whereas certified ABA practitioners or behavior technicians can incorporate this template into their regular note-taking routine.
Why is This Template Useful For ABA Therapists?
RBT’s, BCBA’s or other ABA Therapists face many unique challenges in keeping a comprehensive record of their work.
ABA Therapists may have sessions upwards of many hours in duration that might take place in the client’s home, kindergarten, school, or dedicated clinic space. These sessions will likely produce many important details that need to be noted down – and taking these notes can quickly get very chaotic if you do not have a structure for your notes. Luckily, using this ABA SOAP Notes template can help with many of these challenges.
- This ABA SOAP Notes template helps you to keep your notes structured. This is a fantastic habit to get into for your note-taking as it makes it both easier for you to refer back to, and easier for others to quickly understand your notes.
- Our ABA SOAP Notes template includes space for the client name, date of birth, venue, and session time and duration. These are important factual details, and using a template that reminds you to include them can help you ensure they are included in every session note.
Why Use Carepatron for ABA SOAP Note?
Carepatron is a fully online practice management solution that makes it easy for you to get to your client's information, whatever venue you use for your ABA Therapy sessions.
Carepatron is a secure way for you to store your patient’s session notes and it is certified as HIPAA-compliant for the storage of electronic health records. Using Carepatron also ensures others can easily access your client notes if they need.
By storing your ABA Therapy SOAP Notes within Carepatron, you’ll also have the ability to schedule your client’s ABA Therapy appointments, update client information, manage your calendar, and even conduct video sessions all from within Carepatron.
Not to mention, you can use this ABA Therapy SOAP Notes template and many more from Carepatron’s vast community template library.
Commonly asked questions
Definitely! You can either print this template out and write onto it directly, or you can type directly into it using our PDF’s handy interactive function.
Information you are told that you did not observe or measure yourself, goes in the subjective section of the SOAP Notes. This might be your client directly reporting their feelings to you, or information about the client given to you by a support person.
Not necessarily. ABCs can still be incorporated into your SOAP Notes and can be really useful in structuring your notes in the objective section of the SOAP Notes.
