[Ailist] Re: Applying leeches?

[Kevin Kervick]

I just read your article in the Journal of Brief Therapy on outcome and 
session monitoring in psychotherapy yesterday after I read this post, as I 
am working on an article about the healing capacities of psychotherapists. 
I had not realized you were so instrumental in the development of the 
Session Rating Scale.

In a OD class this year the professor told us that it was not necessary, and 
like your colleague, it was not possible to measure outcomes in 
organizational development and as long as there were many jobs that was all 
that mattered.  My reaction was about the lack of integrity.  We would 
measure outcomes for our own integrity, not to please the payers.

How would the OD community begin a movement to monitor outcomes?

Kevin




> I wrote a book about this, suggesting that therapists track (1) alliance, 
> and (2) clinical functioning at every session. In the book, I included my 
> own alliance measure and suggested several outcome measures that can be 
> used at each session. Today thousands use the OQ-45 or similar for 
> functioning since the last session, and my Session Rating scale or similar 
> for alliance. We now know that measurement improves outcome in therapy by 
> at least 30%.
>
> I hope the organizational consultants on this listserv will develop 
> practical, reliable, and valid measures to track the things they do.