SCOTT D Miller - For the latest and greatest information on Feedback Informed Treatment

  • About
    • About Scott
    • Publications
  • Training and Consultation
  • Workshop Calendar
  • FIT Measures Licensing
  • FIT Software Tools
  • Online Store
  • Top Performance Blog
  • Contact Scott
info@scottdmiller.com 773.404.5130

Climate Change in Denmark

December 5, 2009 By scottdm Leave a Comment

hans_christian_andersen_gbHans Christian Andersen, the author of such classic stories as The Ugly Duckling and the Emperor’s New Clothes, once wrote, “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale of all.”  That sentiment is certainly true of my own life.  For the last 16 years, I’ve been privileged to travel around the world conducting training and providing consultation.  Each year, I meet literally thousands of therapists and I’m consistently impressed and inspired by their dedication and persistence.  Truth be told, that “spirit”–for lack of a better word–is actually what keeps me in the field.

This last year, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time working with practitioners in Denmark.  Interest in Feedback-Informed Treatment has taken off–and I have the frequent flyer miles to prove it! While I’ve been traveling to the homeland of Hans Christian Andersen for many years (actually my maternal grandfather and his family immigrated to the United States from a small town just outside Copenhagen), momentum really began building following several years of workshops arranged by Henrik and Mette Petersen who run Solution–a top notch organization providing both workshops and year-long certification courses in short-term, solution-focused, and systemic therapies.

In October, I worked with 100+ staff who work at Psykoterapeutisk Center Stolpegård–a large outpatient center just outside of Copenhagen.  For two days, we talked about research and practice in psychotheapy, focusing specifically on using outcome to inform and improve clinical services.  Peter Koefoed, chief psychologist and head of Training organized the event.   I was back in Denmark not quite one month later for two days with Henrik and Mette Petersen and a then third day for a small, intensive training with Toftemosegaard–a center for growth and change–smack dab in the middle of Copenhagen.

At each event, I was honored to be accompanied by Danish psychologist Susanne Bargmann, who is an Associate and Certified Trainer for the Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE).  I first met Susanne at a two-day workshop sponsored by Solutions a number of years ago.  Her attitude and drive is infectious.  She attended the Training of Trainer’s event in Chicago and now runs a listserve for Danish practitioners interested in feedback-informed treatment (FIT) (by the way, if you are interested in joining the group simply click on her name above to send an email).

Recently, she published an important article in Psycholog Nyt–the official magazine for the Danish Psychological Association. The article is really the first written in Danish by a Danish practitioner to suggest “practice-based evidence” as a scientifically credible alternative to the narrow “specific treatments for specific problems” paradigm that has come to dominate professional discourse and practice the world over.

Anyway, I’ll be back in Denmark several times in 2010.  In May, I’ll be teaching “Supershrinks: Learning from the Field’s Most Effective Practitioners.”  The course, as I understand it, is already sold out.  No worries though as the workshop is being offered again in November–so sign up early (click here to access my workshop calendar).  Also, in September, Susanne and I will jointly teach a course for psychologists on research entitled, “Forskning og Formidling”–a required training for those seeking specialist approval by the Danish Psychological Association. Finally, as I’ve done for the last several years, I’m scheduled to do two days for Solution as well.  If you live and work in Denmark, I truly hope to see you at one of these events.

Bargman Nye Veje For Evidensbegrebet from Scott Miller

 

Filed Under: Behavioral Health, excellence, Feedback Informed Treatment - FIT Tagged With: cdoi, Danish Psychological Association, denmark, icce, international center for cliniclal excellence, ors, outcome rating scale, practice-based evidence, session rating scale, srs, supershrinks

SEARCH

Subscribe for updates from my blog.

  

Upcoming Training

 ICCE FIT Intensive Training with Dr. Scott Miller
ICCE FIT Supervision Intensive Online Scott D Miller

FIT Software tools

FIT Software tools

NREPP Certified

HTML tutorial

LinkedIn

Topics of Interest:

  • Behavioral Health (110)
  • behavioral health (4)
  • Brain-based Research (2)
  • CDOI (14)
  • Conferences and Training (67)
  • deliberate practice (27)
  • Dodo Verdict (9)
  • Drug and Alcohol (3)
  • evidence-based practice (65)
  • excellence (61)
  • Feedback (38)
  • Feedback Informed Treatment – FIT (203)
  • FIT (25)
  • FIT Software Tools (12)
  • ICCE (26)
  • Implementation (7)
  • medication adherence (3)
  • obesity (1)
  • PCOMS (11)
  • Practice Based Evidence (38)
  • PTSD (4)
  • Suicide (1)
  • supervision (1)
  • Termination (1)
  • Therapeutic Relationship (8)
  • Top Performance (39)

Recent Posts

  • Making Sense of Client Feedback
  • Umpires and Psychotherapists
  • Augmenting the Two-Dimensional Sensory Input of Online Psychotherapy
  • Death of a Friend
  • The Cost of Caring

Recent Comments

  • Asta on The Expert on Expertise: An Interview with K. Anders Ericsson
  • Michael McCarthy on Culture and Psychotherapy: What Does the Research Say?
  • Jim Reynolds on Culture and Psychotherapy: What Does the Research Say?
  • gloria sayler on Culture and Psychotherapy: What Does the Research Say?
  • Joseph Maizlish on Culture and Psychotherapy: What Does the Research Say?

Tags

addiction Alliance behavioral health brief therapy Carl Rogers CBT cdoi common factors conferences continuing education denmark evidence based medicine evidence based practice Evolution of Psychotherapy excellence feedback feedback informed treatment healthcare holland icce international center for cliniclal excellence medicine mental health meta-analysis Norway NREPP ors outcome measurement outcome rating scale post traumatic stress practice-based evidence psychology psychometrics psychotherapy psychotherapy networker public behavioral health randomized clinical trial SAMHSA session rating scale srs supershrinks sweden Therapist Effects therapy Training