A real-world reflection on Feedback-Informed Treatment, client voice, and improving therapy outcomesFor many therapists, one of the most important questions is also one of the hardest to answer: Are our clients actually improving through therapy?Therapists bring years of training, experience,...

Imagine a client has been working with the same therapist for several months. Over time, the therapist has developed an understanding of the client’s goals, progress, concerns, and experience of therapy.Then something changes. The therapist takes leave, moves to a...

Therapists have always used information to understand how clients are progressing.They listen to client experiences, review goals, observe changes, and adjust treatment based on what they learn.Session-by-session outcome monitoring adds another structured source of information by tracking a client’s progress...

Growth can be a positive sign for a therapy practice.More clinicians can mean more clients served, broader expertise, and greater capacity to meet the needs of a community.But growth also changes how a practice sees its clinical work.A solo therapist...

Introducing Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT) into a therapy practice can be an important step toward making client feedback and outcome measurement a consistent part of clinical care.But implementation is not necessarily a one-time process.A practice may begin using the Outcome Rating...

How Psychology Outcomes is putting Feedback-Informed Treatment into practice with MyOutcomes Across mental health practices, more clinicians and organizations are recognizing the value of Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT) as a practical way to bring the client’s perspective into the therapeutic process....

Outcome measures can provide useful information about how clients are experiencing therapy and whether treatment is moving in a helpful direction.But before a client completes an Outcome Rating Scale, Session Rating Scale, or another therapy outcome measure, there is an...

Therapists may use more than one type of outcome measure to understand how a client is progressing in therapy.A global measure such as the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS) can provide a broad view of the client’s wellbeing and functioning. Symptom-specific...

Why tracking changes over time helps therapists make more informed treatment decisions Therapy progress is rarely a straight line.Some clients experience steady improvement. Others make progress, reach a plateau, or experience periods where their difficulties increase before moving forward again.For...

Why collecting feedback is only the first step toward more responsive therapy Many therapists understand the value of gathering client feedback.They may use outcome measures to monitor progress, session feedback tools to understand the therapeutic relationship, or structured assessments to...