Patients Referred for Routine Psychological Therapy Clinical Trial
Official title:
Measuring and Monitoring Patient Informed Clinical Outcomes In Psychological Therapy Supervision - A Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Providing feedback on patient progress to therapists improves clinical outcomes for patients,
particularly those who are failing to improve with therapy. The encouraging research has been
carried out by a small group of researchers, largely working in the United States health care
context. The samples studied have been young people attending university counselling
services, suffering from mild mental health disorders. The group studies are therefore not
similar to patients seen for psychological therapy in the NHS. Also given that therapists are
not necessarily alert to treatment failure, have an overly optimistic view of their patients
progress even when provided with evidence to the contrary, clinical supervision may be a more
effective method through which to provide patient informed clinical outcomes than directly to
therapists themselves.
We will assess if providing feedback through the supervision process is more effective than
providing this information to therapists themselves in terms of improving clinical outcomes,
particularly for patients who are failing to improve with routine NHS Psychological therapy.
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