A Progress Report on the Science (and Art ) of Psychotherapy: The Psychotherapy Networker 30th Anniversary Edition
The 30th Anniversary Edition of the Psychotherapy Networker has hit newsstands. In it, is an article by Diane Cole taking the measure of psychotherapy. Her question? Has the field gotten any better over the last three decades? The entire issue is a "must read," starting with editor Rich Simon's lengthy ...
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NEWSFLASH: The Advanced Intensive and Training of Trainers in Feedback Informed Therapy (FIT)
Dateline: March 17th, 2012, Chicago, Illinois USA Barely a month ago, I announced the addition of a second "Advanced Intensive" (AI) course in Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT). The original March training filled really early this year and a long waiting list formed. Now the second Advanced Intensive training in FIT ...
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The Achieving Clinical Excellence Conference CALL FOR PAPERS
In October 2010, the first annual "Achieving Clinical Excellence" was held in Kansas City, Missouri. A capacity crowd joined leading experts on the subject of top performance for three days worth of training and inspiration. K. Anders Ericsson reviewed his groundbreaking research, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell and others. ICCE Director, ...
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Implementation Science, FIT, and the Training of Trainers
The International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE) is pleased to announce the 6th annual Training of Trainers event to be held in Chicago, Illinois August 6th-10th, 2012. As always, the ICCE TOT prepares participants provide training, consultation, and supervision to therapists, agencies, and healthcare systems in Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT). Attendees ...
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Is the Research on Feedback too Good to be True? Better to UPOD than OPUD!
It is a standard maxim of good business practice: Under Promise, OverDeliver (or UPOD). As my father used to say, "Do your best, and then a little better." Sadly, history shows that the field of behavioral health has followed a difference course: Over Promise, Under Deliver. The result? O, PUDs ...
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Goodbye Mr. & Ms. Know-it-All: Redefining Competence in the Era of Increasing Complexity
Every day behavioral health professionals make hundreds of decisions. As experts in the field, they meet and work successfully with diverse clients presenting an array of different difficulties. Available evidence indicates that the average person who receives care is better off than 80% of those with similar problems that do ...
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The New Average: Meeting the Need to Exceed
No matter where you look,good is no longer "good enough." In a recent article in the New York Times, author and trend watcher, Thomas L. Friedman, declared, "Average is Over." It's an argument similar to the one made over a decade ago by Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under ...
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Getting FIT: Another Opportunity
The March Advanced Intensive in Feedback Informed Treatment is full! Not a single space left. For several weeks, we put folks on a waiting list. When that reached nearly 20, we told most they'd probably have to wait until next year to attend. Wait no more! The ICCE is pleased ...
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Excellence "Front and Center" at the Psychotherapy Networker Conference
This year, the Psychotherapy Networker is celebrating it's 35th anniversary. I'm not going to let on how long I've been a reader and subscriber, but I can say that I eagerly anticipate each issue. Rich Simon and his incredibly dedicated and talented crew always seem to have their fingers on ...
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The Role of Mentors in the Development of Expertise: Bruce Wampold wins the Beckman Award Honoring Inspirational Professors
Saturday, January 7th, 2012, 7:00 pm EST The Carter Presidential Libary Atlanta, Georgia In 2008, the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Trust Award was created to honor inspirational professors, academic faculty members who have inspired their students to "create an organization, concept, procedure, or movement which has demonsrably conferred a benefit on ...
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Looking Back, Looking Forward
Bidding goodbye to last year and welcoming the new always puts me in a reflective frame of mind. How did my life, work, and relationships go? What are my hopes for the future? Just two short years ago, together with colleagues from around the world, the International Center for Clinical ...
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What’s disturbing Mental Health? Opportunities Lost
In a word, paperwork. Take a look at the book pictured above. That massive tome on the left is the 2011 edition of "Laws and Regulations" governing mental health practice in the state of California. Talk about red tape! Hundreds and hundreds of pages of statutes informing, guiding, restricting, and ...
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Optum Health and the ICCE: Partnering to Achieve Excellence in Behavioral Health
Monday, November 28th, 2011 Chicago, IL & Goldern Valley, MN The members, associaties, and directors of the International Center for Clinical Excellence are proud to announce a partnership with Optum Health's Campaign for Excellence. Optum Health works with employers, payers, and providers serving nearly 60,000,000 people. Their "Campaign for Excellence ...
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Cutting Edge Feedback
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS Using feedback to guide and improve the quality and outcome of behavioral health services is growing in popularity. The number of systems available for measuring, aggregating, and interpreting the feedback provided by consumers is increasing. The question, of ...
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Feedback-Informed Treatment as Evidence-based Practice: APA, SAMSHA, and NREPP
What is evidence-based practice? Visit the UK-based NICE website, or talk to proponents of particular theoretical schools or therapeutic models, and they will tell you that being "evidence-based" means using the approach research has deemed effective for a particular diagnosis (e.g., CBT for depression, EMDR for trauma). Over the last ...
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Making History in Delft, Holland: The Launch of the first Consumer-Driven Outcome Management App
Dateline: October 18, 2011 Chicago, Illinois USA Last week I was in Europe: three days in Norway, a week in Sweden, and a day in Holland. In a day or two, I'll say more about developments in Norway and the launch of the largest study in history on FIT in ...
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