Transforming between Beck Depression Inventory and CORE-OM scores in routine clinical practice.

Objectives: The Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation - Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) are routinely used to assess emotional problems. It would be helpful to be able to compare scores when only one of the measures is available. We investigated the relationship between the measures and produced translation tables.

Therapists' recall of early sudden gains in routine clinical practice.

This study followed up one by Stiles et al. (2003), which identified sudden gains -- large reductions from one session to the next on a short form of clinical outcomes in routine evaluation outcome measure (CORE-SF) -- by some clients in routine clinical practice. We interviewed the therapists who had treated sudden gain and non-sudden gain clients.

Predicting change for individual psychotherapy clients on the basis of their nearest neighbors.

This study extended client-focused research by using the nearest neighbor (NN) approach, a client-specific sampling and prediction strategy derived from research on alpine avalanches. Psychotherapy clients (N=203) seen in routine practice settings in the United Kingdom completed a battery of intake measures and then completed symptom intensity ratings before each session. Forecasts of each client's rate of change and session-by-session variability were computed on the basis of that client's NNs (n=10-50 in different comparisons).

Early sudden gains in psychotherapy under routine clinic conditions: practice-based evidence.

Sudden gains--large, enduring reductions in symptom intensity from one session to the next--were identified by T. Z. Tang and R.