Outcome Assessment
Purposes of Outcome Assessment Treatment planning Treatment monitoring Accountability to others
Outcome Assessment: Content Symptoms Specific Global Functioning/Quality of Life Satisfaction with Services
Outcome Assessment: Sources and Time Intervals Sources Self-report Significant other Therapist Trained observer Archival Time intervals Pre-treatment Mid-treatment Post-treatment Follow-up
Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) One of several instruments designed by Beck Assesses specific symptoms of depression, especially cognitive symptoms 21 items scored on 0 (no symptom) to 3 (severe symptom) scale Cut-offs provided for different levels of depression Lots of research, good psychometrics, convenient What do your scores mean?
State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) Assesses specific symptoms of trait and state anxiety 40 total items: 20 trait and 20 state Good psychometrics, convenient to use What do your scores mean?
SCL-90 Symptom Checklist-90 is a checklist of symptoms rated from 0 (not present) to 4 (extremely distressed by symptom) Good psychometrics, convenient Normed on non-patients (adult and adolescent), psychiatric outpatients and inpatients Brief Symptom Inventory is a 53-item version with similar psychometrics.
SCL-90 (continued) Symptom dimensions include Somatization Obsessive-Compulsive Interpersonal Sensitivity Depression Anxiety Hostility Phobic Anxiety Paranoid Ideation Psychoticism Additional Items Global Indexes Global Severity Index (GSI) Positive Symptom Distress Index (PSDI) Positive Symptom Total (PST)
Other Brief Measures Symptoms Hamilton Rating Sale for Depression Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale Fear Questionnaire Addiction Severity Index Function/Impairment GAF SOFAR