Improving the effects of psychotherapy: The use of early identification of treatment and problem-solving strategies in routine practice.

Abstract

Client-focused research systems have been developed to monitor and provide feedback information about clients' progress in psychotherapy as a method of enhancing outcome for those who are predicted to be treatment failures. In the current study, the authors examined whether feedback regarding client progress and the use of clinical support tools (CSTs) affected client outcome and number of sessions attended. Results showed that clients in the feedback plus CST group stayed in therapy longer and had superior outcomes. Nearly twice as many clients in the feedback plus CST group achieved clinically significant or reliable change, and fewer were classified as deteriorated by the time treatment ended.

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