Can benchmarks improve IAPT performance?
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes It doesn’t take much digging into national IAPT 2020 – 21 data to discover big differences between service provision in different areas. In the last blog we highlighted (against a national recovery rate of 51%) the...
The IAPT postcode lottery: What’s changed?
Why is the recovery rate of one IAPT area 13% higher than the national average? Why is the recovery rate of another 17% lower? And why is the recovery rate of the first almost double the second? In this first of a two-part series we drill into the data to reveal the...
Small gains disguise a miserable picture: IAPT 2020 – 21
Table of contentsThe latest data: overall referrals and endings How did clients move through the system? What’s gone up, gone down, and what’s stayed the same?Small gains in the context of still woeful attritionGo explore the Interactive Dashboard! Estimated reading...
Made to Measure: The Strathclyde Inventory
Table of contentsA measure of the fully functioning person What does it measure?How to understand the numbersWhere you can find itAccessing our study A measure of the fully functioning person In the move to measuring outcome in routine counselling practice, there has...
Progress feedback: How much difference does it make?
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Table of contentsWhy all the noise about progress feedback?What exactly are routine outcome measurement and clinical feedback systems?Fast forward 2021: A new meta-analysis of studies into progress feedbackWhat difference did progress...
Does supervision affect therapy outcomes?
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Table of contentsThe problem we have with supervision What do reviews of clinical supervision research tell us?What is supervisors’ impact on therapy outcome?Does therapy supervision need a fresh direction?Supervision: what...
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...