The use of aggregate (i.e., practice wide) patient-reported outcome measurement (PROM) for program evaluation and quality improvement is nothing new in behavioral healthcare. Hospitals, large healthcare organizations, and university health centers have leveraged the power of aggregate outcome data for decades to aid in refining their practices and protocols…
Our second installment of the Blueprint Workshop Series is nearly upon us! I am beyond excited about this one - ACT is such a wonderful treatment modailty to practice measurement-based care. I'll be covering everything from why measurement can and should be used in ACT, to a review…
Source: Yura Fresh/Unsplash“Is this the right app for me?” I was first asked this question as a doctoral student years ago, and didn't think much of it. “Sure” I said to my client, “It seems fine to me. As long as you are finding value from…
Source: Jopwell/PexelsA new study [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00344/full] published in Frontiers in Psychiatry [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/psychiatry] collected and analyzed the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs held by a range of mental health professionals regarding the integration of digital health…
Decades of clinical research have culminated in a simple truth: People who tend to get better from therapy do so sooner rather than later. In fact, research [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0100614] suggests that an early positive response in the first four to…
Note: All identifiable information has been changed to protect patient health information Beth Lee was a 19-year-old Asian-American female who was referred for treatment at my clinic due to social anxiety following her first semester of college. As the semester progressed, Beth became increasingly anxious around her peers at…
One feature in the Blueprint platform that always takes clinicians by surprise is the ability to collect what’s called “passive behavioral data” from our patients. Sounds fancy, right? Well…it is! And trust me, you don’t need to be a data scientist to figure out how to leverage…
Note: All identifiable information has been changed to protect patient health information. Jim Fay was a 45-year-old Hispanic male who I had been working with for just over a month. Jim carried a diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and we had been working together on better understanding the relationships…
It’s clear that today’s treatment landscape is saturated with an alphabet-soup of evidence-based practices that everyone seems to be an expert on. Just go online and look at the description of mental health treatment facilities in your area. Chances are the services provided include at least one three-letter…
The unspoken truth about measurement in routine clinical practice today is that it is inherently failure-oriented. It allows us to quantify the all-too-common clinical observation - that a patient, for whatever reason, is not getting better. It serves the purpose of confirming this subjective experience by attaching a number to…