How acceptable are outcome measures to young people?
SDQ, YP-CORE and SWEMWEBS. You’d work hard to find three more different measures to test for their acceptability, applicability and appropriateness in an online counselling service for young people. So how did the young people that contacted Kooth experience them? And...
AdaPTing to routine outcome measurement
What’s it like to incorporate routine outcome measurement into your practice? Professional counsellor, TMN reader and Facebook group member Helen Breakwell offers her experience of involvement in BACP’s AdaPT project and makes the case for why we should consider...
How does IAPT and EAP performance compare?
How does IAPT and EAP performance compare? What does a comparison of the two tell us about the relative strengths of each model? At the invitation of the EAPA UK, we set about the task of finding out. Below we present a snapshot of our key findings. A recent Centre...
The place of research in therapy practice
When it comes to the role of research in psychotherapy practice, there seems to be a gap between what we say we want of research, and what we actually do with it in practice. We explore this rather ambivalent relationship a little further and ponder on what the future...
There will be a future…
It may not be the end of the world. At least not this time. Maybe this is an appropriate time to reflect on the role that hope plays in our lives and in the work that we do, and how we can keep its flame alive for our clients. Hopefully too, soon, in the words of Matt...
The CORE-bots have arrived
Back in July we invited you to try out a prototype of our online CORE-10 measure, and indeed many of you did. This is a brief update on our finalised online CORE Outcome Measure and CORE-10 measures, produced in collaboration with the CORE System Trust. No fee, no...
Will SCopEd make me a better therapist?
The current landscape of competences, standards, training and practice requirements within counselling and psychotherapy is a bit of a dog’s dinner. SCoPEd may or may not be the answer to that problem, but the question we’re more interested in is “Will it help me to...
Where did our love go?
The perennial question. Do clients drop out because they got what they needed and forgot to tell us, or because they didn’t get what they wanted and couldn’t tell us? Either way, drop out is (arguably) largely preventable. We need to start taking it personally and...
IAPT 2020: It’s all downhill from here…
Used to be that the release of the annual IAPT performance date was accompanied by a fanfare. Not any longer. Looking at the trend data it’s easy to see why. In the space of five years the proportion of clients completing therapy has dropped from nearly two-thirds to...
Was it something I said?
Whatever yours may look like, an empty chair is often the most obvious result of an unplanned ending in therapy. Concerned by the level of dropout among my private practice clients a couple of years ago, I set about trying to change it. Two years on, I’m marking my...