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Recent Posts
PCOMS, Diagnosis and Acute Inpatient Care
February 15 2018
Diagnosis and Acute Inpatient Care Two recently published articles are now available--both take PCOMS to different places. The first discusses PCOMS as an alternative to psychiatric diagnosis. Rather...
What’s In a Name?
January 15 2018
Partners for Change Outcome Management System There has been an ongoing confusion about what to call the clinical methodology of administering and discussing the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS) and the...
The Future of Outcome Monitoring Is Here
December 15 2017
Monitoring outcomes as a quality improvement strategy, better described as systematic client feedback, is no longer a vision of the distant future—it is the way things are expected to be done quite...
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
November 15 2017
The “Impossible” Case project I have always been taken by Emily Dickinson and this is one of my favorites. I included this poem in the book, Psychotherapy with “Impossible” Cases, which described my...
Supervision: Who Is It For?
October 15 2017
Supervision Through PCOMS This blog is based on a recent comment (Duncan, 2016) published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. The purpose of supervision is to promote the...
The Ominous Clinical Cutoff and Data Accuracy
September 15 2017
Ominous Clinical Cutoff & Data Accuracy If there is anything about PCOMS and the Outcome Rating Scale that raises the hair on our collective necks, it is the ominous sounding but completely innocuous...
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
July 15 2017
The PCOMS Longevity A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… In 1994, I published an article in the journal Psychotherapy with my friend and colleague Dorothy Moynihan (“Applying Outcome Research:...
PCOMS Top Ten Motivations for Therapists
April 15 2017
When doing implementations of PCOMS, after I do an overview of what PCOMS actually is and show a video of what it looks like, I ask therapists, "Why don't you want to do this?" or "Why won't you do...
The Founder of Common Factors: Saul Rosenzweig
March 15 2017
The common factors have a storied history that started with Saul Rosenzweig’s (1936) classic article "Implicit Common Factors in Diverse Forms of Psychotherapy." In addition to the original...