Outcomes management, expected treatment response, and severity-adjusted provider profiling in outpatient psychotherapy.

摘要: To make use of psychotherapy research in practice, therapists need real-time access to valid clinically relevant information about patients. The dose–effect and phase models provide a theoretical background for empirically based management by describing the systematic nature progress therapy guiding selection outcome criteria. Given this background, it is possible derive appropriate monitoring cases ongoing therapies (patient profiling) identifying therapists' relative strengths weaknesses (severity-adjusted provider profiling). These applied methods may be used inform decision making psychotherapies support supervision clinical training. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 58: 1291–1304, 2002.