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A Handy "Little Helper" for the Outcome Rating Scale: A Freebie from the ACE...
This last week the planning committee for the upcoming Achieving Clinical Excellence (ACE) conference meet once again in Horsholm, Denmark. In the picture from left to right: Liz Plutt, Bill Andrews,...
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Back in November, I blogged about the ICCE application to SAMSHA’s National Registry for consideration of FIT as an official evidence-based approach (EBP). Given the definition of EBP by the Institute...
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A Lotta Help from One’s Friends: The Role of Community in the Pursuit of...
Dateline: Chicago, IL USA Hard not to be impressed with the USA Women's Gymnastic team. What skill, percision, expertise, and excellence. By now, I'm sure you've seen the interviews. In all...
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Feedback in Groups: New Tools, New Evidence
Groups are an increasingly popular mode for delivering behavioral health services. Few would deny that using the same hour to treat mutliple people is more cost effective. A large body of research...
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Resources on Feedback-Informed Treatment, Training, & Research
Last week, I spent a day in London working with the clinical staff of the Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The subject? Feedback, of course! As soon as I stepped off my...
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What does Golf have to do with Feedback-Informed Treatment? Watch the video!
Summer is finally here. The snow and rain has been replaced by warm, humid days here in Chicago. The team at ICCE is awaiting the arrival of practitioners from all around the world to participate in...
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How not to be among the 70-95% of practitioners and agencies that fail
Our field is full of good ideas, strategies that work. Each year, practitioners and agencies devote considerable time and resources to staying current with new developments. What does the research...
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What can therapists learn from the CIA? Experts versus the "Wisdom of the Crowd"
What can we therapists learn from the CIA? In a phrase, “When it comes to making predictions about important future events, don’t rely on experts!” After a spate of embarrassing, high-profile...
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What’s in an Acronym? CDOI, FIT, PCOMS, ORS, SRS … all BS?
“What’s in a name?” –William Shakespeare A little over a week ago, I received an email from Anna Graham Anderson, a graduate student in psychology at Aarhus University in Denmark. “I’m writing,” she...
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Is Supervision Important to you?
How valuable is clinical supervision to you? In their massive, long-term international study of therapist development, researchers Orlinsky and Rønnestad (2005) found that “practitioners at all...
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Want to be more effective? Point North!
In June, I spent several days in the air traveling to and from Perth, Australia for a conference. Too tired to read anymore, I turned on the video system and began watching a program from the...
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Implementing Feedback Informed Treatment
What do the Sydney Opera House, Boston Central Artery Tunnel, and Eurozone Typhoon Defense Project all have in common? In each case, their developers suffered from, “The Planning Fallacy” (PF)....
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