title: Providing patient progress information and clinical support tools to therapists: effects on patients at risk of treatment failure.
abstract: The current study examined the effects of providing treatment progress information and problem-solving tools to both patients and therapists during the course of psychotherapy. Three hundred and seventy patients were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups: treatment-as-usual, or an experimental condition based on the use of patient/therapist feedback and clinical decision-support tools. Patients in the feedback condition were significantly more improved at termination than the patients in the treatment-as-usual condition. Treatment effects were not a consequence of different amounts of psychotherapy received by experimental and control clients. These findings are consistent with past research on these approaches although the effect size was smaller in this study. Not all therapists were aided by the feedback intervention.
authors: Institute of Psychiatry & Neurology, Department of Neurotic Disorders & Psychotherapy, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: Witold
authors: W
authors: Simon
authors: Michael J
authors: MJ
authors: Lambert
authors: Mitchell W
authors: MW
authors: Harris
authors: Gregory
authors: G
authors: Busath
authors: Aaron
authors: A
authors: Vazquez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric / Q000379:methods; D017211:Treatment Failure; D016896:Treatment Outcome