Outcomes and Incomes: How to Evaluate, Improve, and Market Your Psychotherapy Practice by Measuring Outcomes [With CDROM]

What it is: It has been shown that just measuring the outcome of psychotherapy and giving the therapist feedback on it improves the therapy. In "Outcomes & Incomes" Clement gives a concise and doable system how to do this in private practice (obviously taken from what he has done it in his own practice). Clement gives a short introduction into the theory of outcome measurement, suggestions how to implement that in private practice, a scheme how to save these data in a computer database, and examples of how you can use these data to learn about yourself as a therapist and to market yourself better. Part Two of the book contains a catalog of outcome measures to choose from (with a short discussion of each), including many forms that can be copied and used by the purchaser of the book. A CD that comes with the book contains the forms introduced in the book formatted in MS Word 97 (*.doc) and RTF (*.rtf) format for those who want to print them out on a computer. The Good: Clement presents a well readable system of outcome measurement in private practice. The system seems to be simple enough to be actually implemented in a private practice (disclaimer: I have not done it). Just reading the book is inspiring. The Bad: Clement describes a way how to measure "effect size" in his system. Although I am not an expert, I think he gives a wrong way of computing this measure. The way he Clement computes it, he seems to exaggerate positive as well as negative outcomes. If you want to implement Clement's system yourself, you may want to keep this in mind. Summary: If you want to implement an outcome measurement system for your private practice, this book will give you a very good start.