Documenting Change: A Primer on Measurement, Analysis, and Reporting

Target audience and instructional level of this course: intermediate

There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

This manual explains how to measure clinical change in psychotherapy,
and how to use statistics to understand outcome data. Guidelines are
provided for statistical formulas and outcome reporting. The Manual
provides examples based on the Session Rating Scale (SRS) and
Outcome Rating Scale (ORS), but also pertains to other therapeutic
alliance and outcome measures.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training the health care professional will be able to:

• Establish a valid baseline in psychotherapy (the basics of validity and reliability, and how they pertain to choice of instrument and the administration of outcome measures).
• Graph client results (guidelines and methods for displaying outcome data for clinical use).
• Articulate clinical significance.
• Utilize effect size and expected trajectories of change.

Scott D. Miller, PhD, is a co-founder of the Center for Clinical Excellence, an international consortium of clinicians, researchers, and educators dedicated to promoting excellence in behavior health. Dr. Miller conducts workshops and training in the United States and abroad, helping hundreds of agencies and organizations, both public and private, to achieve superior results. He is one of a handful of "invited faculty" whose work, thinking, and research is featured at the prestigious "Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference." His humorous and engaging presentation style and command of the research literature consistently inspires practitioners, administrators, and policy makers to make effective changes in service delivery.

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