Saskatchewan Leads the PCOMS Way Thanks mainly to the efforts of Ruth Mireau, the Provincial PCOMS Coordinator, Saskatchewan Is enjoying a province-wide successful implementation. This, of course, is...
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...
Research, Mischaracterizations, Limitations, and PCOMS
August 15 2017
PCOMS Research, Mischaracterizations & Limitations Doing research is hard. Especially original research and data collection (vs. harvesting existing data), and particularly in real clinical settings....
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:...
Characteristics & Behaviors That Make Good Therapists After a recent keynote I did, I was approached by a very thoughtful therapist who wondered about the characteristics/behaviors that I liked to...