https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2013.147

Simple methods for enhancing patient outcome in routine care: Measuring, monitoring, and feedback

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2013)
Submitted: April 17, 2013
Accepted: January 12, 2014
Published: January 12, 2014
Client Feedback, Outcome Questionnaire-45, Treatment Failure
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Michael J. Lambert
michael_lambert@byu.edu
Brigham Young University, United States.
Gianluca Lo Coco
Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
While highly effective, psychotherapy outcome studies suggest 5?14% of clients worsen while in treatment and that therapists are unable to identify a substantial portion of such cases. Methods to systematically track client mental health functioning over the course of treatment and adjust treatment through the use of problem-solving tools are described. We summarize meta-analyses of the effects of a feedback system indicating that the number of psychotherapy patients who deteriorate can be cut in half. We conclude with a series of practice implications, including that clinicians seriously consider making formal methods of collecting client feedback a routine part of their daily practice.

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Research was funded by an award to the first author from the Susa Young Gates Professorship

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Lambert, M. J., & Lo Coco, G. (2014). Simple methods for enhancing patient outcome in routine care: Measuring, monitoring, and feedback. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 16(2), 93–101. https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2013.147

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