Assessing Psychotherapy Outcome With Feedback
Status unconfirmed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Individual Psychiatric Disorder, Couple Dysfunction, Family Dysfunction
In brief
This study is a comparison of client outcomes in two different types of psychotherapy treatment. In one condition clients will receive treatment-as-usual (TAU); the therapy that they would normally receive. In the other condition clients will receive treatment-as-usual but in addition their therapist will have access to empirical feedback on client progress. Clients in the feedback condition will fill out weekly online questionnaires, and their therapists will have access to a website that feeds back the results of these questionnaires. The purpose of the study is to understand the impact of providing such feedback to therapists. Participating therapists at 4 sites will offer all of their clients the opportunity to participate, and participating clients will be randomly assigned to either condition. This should result in a representative sample of client seeking treatment at these 4 Chicago-area clinics.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02023736
- Run by
- The Family Institute at Northwestern University
- People needed
- 1000
- Starts
- 2013-12-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-08-09
Who can join
Age: 12 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Client seeks therapy at one of the 4 participating sites
- For Individual therapy: client must consent and complete pre-test battery before the first therapy session
- For couple therapy: both clients must consent and complete pre-test battery before the first therapy session
- For family therapy: at least one client must consent and complete pre-test battery before the first therapy session
- Clients must be 12 years of age or older
- Clients must be able to read (English or Spanish) at a 6th grade level
You may not qualify if…
- Clients under 12 years of age
- Clients incapable of reading at a 6th grade level
- Clients who are blind, or are have sufficiently impaired sight as to be unable to read the questions on the web portal
Where it is running
- Community Counseling Centers of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States (enrolling)
- Jewish Child and Family Services — Chicago, Illinois, United States (enrolling)
- Catholic Charities — Chicago, Illinois, United States (enrolling)
- The Family Institute at Northwestern University — Evanston, Illinois, United States (enrolling)
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