Tag: Outcomes
The Power of Outcome Driven Recovery in Mental Health
Discover the power of an Outcome Orientated Approach to Recovery Join me Friday 27, May 2016 in the historic market town of Newark, on the River Trent, for a coming together of minds to share experience and research on the benefits and challenges of embedding the routine administration of the ORS and SRS into a recovery oriented service delivery […]
Measuring Evidence Based Outcomes: What’s in it for Therapists? (Part 1)
The overwhelming consensus among industry leaders is that tracking, measuring, and reporting psychotherapy outcomes will be the norm, and even standardized, in the future. The health and wellness industry is all about results. Medical patients now routinely ask about the track records and success rates of those treating them and, over time, the clients of […]
Predicting Change: The Best-Fit Model
In the new version of MyOutcomes® database, the aggregate effect size for our entire client base is .08. This provides a strong indicator of the statistical power of the PCOMS outcome measure algorithms MyOutcomes later versions do a much better job of modeling reality, or put another way, model the true clinical population. When trying […]
Outcome, Evidence, Effectiveness and Accountability are the watch words of the day
“Outcome and Effectiveness; Evidence and Accountability are the watchwords of the day” In a recent presentation on transforming behavioral health care, Dr. Scott Miller shared some of the most common challenges he hears about from health-care professionals around the world in the changing environment in which they practice. Again and again, he’s told, they’ve been asked […]
MyOutcomes in Supervision
What supervisors are saying about MyOutcomes: “MyOutcomes has the ability to generate alerts when clients are at risk of dropping out or are not benefiting from services. This is a great tool for clinicians and supervisors, allowing timely identification of these ‘cases of concern’ so that action can be taken to reduce the risk of […]
Outcomes all equal? The Dodo Bird Debate lives on
It seems the jury is still out on the “Dodo Bird verdict†declaring that all treatment approaches work equally well (provided, of course, there are good therapists using them). To see where the two sides in the debate stand, read this 2009 article by Siev, Huppert and Chambless in Behavior Therapist alongside Scott D. Miller's […]
