title: Providing feedback to psychotherapists on their patients' progress: clinical results and practice suggestions.
abstract: We describe and illustrate our system to measure, monitor, and feed back information about patient treatment. This clinical innovation relies on research-based clinical decision tools that provide psychotherapists with timely warnings when a patient's deviation from an expected treatment response foretells possible treatment failure. We summarize the results of four controlled studies using this methodology; the collective results suggest that measuring, monitoring, and predicting treatment failure (feedback) enhance treatment outcomes for patients who have a negative response. Clinicians are encouraged to employ these methods in routine practice despite their confidence in their own ability to predict patient outcome.
authors.affiliation: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA. michael_lambert@byu.edu
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: Cory
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Harmon
authors.forename: Karstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Slade
authors.forename: Jason L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Whipple
authors.forename: Eric J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Hawkins
mesh_terms: D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome