Executive Editor Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter Orange, California, United States
It’s not a pretty picture. Available evidence indicates that the effectiveness of psychotherapy has not improved despite 100 years of theorizing and research. What would help? Not learning a new model of therapy or the “latest” so-called “evidence-based” treatment approach. And no, not attending another CEU event or sorting through that stack of research journals by your desk. A simple, valid, and reliable alternative exists for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of treatment based on using ongoing feedback to empirically tailor services to the individual client needs and characteristics. Research from multiple randomized clinical trials documents that this simple, transtheoretical approach as much as doubles the effectiveness of treatment while simultaneously reducing costs, drop-out rates and deterioration.
This session has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. For a full list of approved sessions, click here.
Learning Objectives:
Therapists will learn what outcome research indicates about the general and relative efficacy of psychotherapy.
Therapists will learn three, evidence-based problems that impact the delivery of effective psychotherapy.
Therapists will learn how ongoing and systematic assessment the clients’ perceptions of progress and satisfaction can be used to tailor services to the individual client’s needs and characteristics.
Therapists will learn a simple and reliable method for evaluating process and outcome in treatment.
Therapists will learn three ways to use the information from session-by-session measurement to enhance engagement in and effectiveness of the services they offer clients.