Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
6-2006
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Source Publication
Psychological Assessment
Source ISSN
1040-3590
Abstract
In the delivery of clinical services, outcomes monitoring (i.e., repeated assessments of a patient's response to treatment) can be used to support clinical decision making (i.e., recurrent revisions of outcome expectations on the basis of that response). Outcomes monitoring can be particularly useful in the context of established practice research networks. This article presents a strategy to disaggregate patients into homogeneous subgroups to generate optimal expected treatment response profiles, which can be used to predict and track the progress of patients in different treatment modalities. The study was based on data from 618 diagnostically diverse patients treated with either a cognitive-behavioral treatment protocol (n = 262) or an integrative cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal treatment protocol (n = 356). The validity of expected treatment response models to predict treatment in those 2 protocols for individual patients was evaluated. The ways such a procedure might be used in outpatient centers to learn more about patients, predict treatment response, and improve clinical practice are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Lutz, Wolfgang; Saunders, Stephen M.; Leon, Scott C.; Martinovich, Zoran; Kosfelder, Joachim; Schulte, Dietmar; Grawe, Klaus; and Tholen, Sven, "Empirically and Clinically Useful Decision Making in Psychotherapy: Differential Predictions With Treatment Response Models" (2006). Psychology Faculty Research and Publications. 301.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/psych_fac/301
Comments
Accepted version. Psychological Assessment, Vol. 18, No. 2 (June 2006): 133-141. DOI. © 2019 EBSCO Industries, Inc. Used with permission.