Patient-Focused and Feedback Research in Psychotherapy

Wolfgang Lutz (Ph.D., Full Professor) is head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and the Director of the Outpatient Clinic and Postgraduate Clinic Training at the University of Trier, Germany.Kim de Jong (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Unit Clinical Psychology, at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Julian Rubel (Ph.D.) is research fellow at the Department for clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Trier, Germany.

• Introduction: Patient-focused and feedback research in psychotherapy: Where are we and where do we want to go? 1. A mixed-method investigation of patient monitoring and enhanced feedback in routine practice: Barriers and facilitators 2. Feedback and therapist effects in the context of treatment outcome and treatment length 3. Why do some therapists not deal with outcome monitoring feedback? A feasibility study on the effect of regulatory focus and person–organization fit on attitude and outcome 4. The effect of implementing the Outcome Questionnaire-45.2 feedback system in Norway: A multisite randomized clinical trial in a naturalistic setting 5. Feedback mechanisms of change: How problem alerts reported by youth clients and their caregivers impact clinician-reported session content 6. Predicting outcome of substance abuse treatment in a feedback study: Can recovery curves be improved upon? 7. Daily monitoring of temporal trajectories of suicidal ideation predict self-injury: A novel application of patient progress monitoring 8. Extreme deviations fromexpected recovery curves and their associations with therapeutic alliance, social support, motivation, and life events in psychosomatic in-patient therapy 9. Using the Assessment for Signal Clients as a feedback tool for reducing treatment failure