Objective: Mental health disparities between racial/ethnic minorities (REM) and White individuals are well documented. These disparities extend into psychotherapy and have been observed among clients receiving care at university/college counseling centers. However, less is known about if campus RE composition affects outcomes from psychotherapy for REM and White clients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe practice of routine outcome monitoring (ROM) has grown in popularity and become a fixture in feedback-supported clinical practice and research. However, if the interpretation of an ROM measure changes over time, treatment outcome scores may be inaccurate and produce erroneous or misguided interpretations of client progress and therapist efficacy. The current study examined whether factorial invariance held when using the Behavioral Health Measure (BHM-20) longitudinally in a clinical sample (n = 12,467).
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December 2019
Objective: Therapist effectiveness has primarily been defined as being the aggregate of the client therapy outcomes within a therapist's caseload. It may seem intuitive that the most skilled therapists are both effective (in the way defined above) and consistent in facilitating positive outcomes across their clients; however, this premise has not been fully tested. The present study sought to empirically examine this question in a large, multisite, geographically diverse sample.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. In Results section, under the heading the "Application", CI difference values were incorrect in one of the sentences. The corrected sentence is given below.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Psychotherapy research commonly utilizes clients' last session score as an indicator of treatment outcome. We examined whether this last session score is consistent with what would be predicted based on clients' general trajectory in psychological functioning across sessions. We focused on the unstandardized residual variance at the last session, as this represents the degree to which the session score is divergent (or not) from what is predicted from the previous sessions (i.
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