Emerging methods for providing clinicians with timely feedback on treatment effectiveness: An introduction
✍ Scribed by Michael J. Lambert
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 55 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This article introduces the issue of Journal of Clinical Psychology/In Session devoted to the need for, and value of, providing psychotherapists with feedback about client progress during the course of treatment. After an introduction that sets articles in the series in the context of improving psychotherapy outcome, the seven articles in this special issue are briefly summarized. The articles that follow this introduction provide general principles for effective feedback, highlight therapist difficulties in predicting treatment failure, provide “lab tests” for recognition of poorly responding clients, and demonstrate the powerful effects of providing therapists with feedback on client progress. The articles argue that coupling of statistical modeling techniques with currently available information technology is an innovation to routine clinical practice that clinicians can ill afford to overlook. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session.