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routine outcome monitoring
Articles tagged "routine outcome monitoring".
7 articles
From Data to Intervention: Four International Case Studies of Practice-Research Networks in Mental Health
Abstract The gap between psychotherapy research and clinical practice remains a significant challenge, hindering the translation of evidence into real-world settings and the generation of practice-based evidence. Practice-research networks (PRN) have emerged as a powerful collaborative model to bridge this divide. This paper presents and synthesizes insights from four distinct international PRNs to illustrate their […]
Stewart E. Cooper, Ph.D., ABPP + 5 more
September 10, 2025
Measurement-Based Care Professional Practice Guideline
Abstract: Boswell et al. (2022) persuasively make the case for and propose professional practice guidelines (PPG) for measurement-based care (MBC). Although the evidence for MBC is robust, implementing MBC effectively in practice requires skills and processes not discussed in the PPG. We discuss five problems with the PPG for MBC: The “what’s in a name?” problem, lack of […]
Bruce E. Wampold, Ph.D., ABPP + 1 more
April 10, 2023
Measurement Based Care for Depression
Depressive disorders are highly prevalent mental health conditions (NIH, 2022). Although effective treatments exist, barriers to care frequently interfere with access to care (Mojtabai et al., 2011). In the absence of prompt interventions, depressive symptoms can last over six months (Whiteford et al., 2013). Thus, there is an imperative to for the mental health field […]
Matteo Bugatti, Ph.D. + 4 more
June 1, 2022
Behavioral Health Technology Platforms and the Implementation of Measurement-Based Care in Psychotherapy
Measurement-based care (MBC) is a data-driven approach to delivering health care services. MBC encompasses an array of clinical tools, such as routine outcome monitoring (ROM), feedback informed treatment (FIT), and measurement feedback systems (MFS). Collectively, these practices center around the routine administration of treatment outcomes measurement and processing the scores with clients about treatment progress. […]
Matteo Bugatti, Ph.D. + 4 more
March 24, 2022
Progress Feedback in Group Therapy
Treatment Feedback and Success Monitoring Treatment Success Measuring the success of treatment can involve many criteria, one being change on some outcome (e.g., psychiatric distress) to normal or improved levels (Kazdin, 2016; Lambert, 2015). Wampold (2015) noted that routine outcome monitoring (ROM) and its feedback to clinicians is now well-supported and should be adopted wherever […]
Hal Svien, B.S. + 2 more
June 9, 2019
Why Psychotherapists Should Measure and Monitor Client Treatment Response
Background Thousands of clinical trials and naturalistic studies have now been conducted on the effects of psychotherapy. Reviews of this research have shown that about 75% of those who enter treatment in clinical trials show some benefit (Lambert, 2013). This finding generalizes across a wide range of disorders except for severe biologically based disturbances (e.g., […]
Michael J. Lambert, Ph.D. + 1 more
March 3, 2019
Did I Make a Difference with My Client?
Professional practice is about making a difference with our clients—we want to help our clients reach their goals, and, we want our contribution to count. This is true in many professional settings, whether we offer treatment, counseling, training, education, or conduct applied research. But, how can we tell whether we actually have made a difference […]
Tomas F. Langkaas + 2 more
December 9, 2018