Feedback Informed Psychological Therapy Science and Practice

This book is a clinical guide to using routine outcome monitoring and feedback to prevent and address patient deterioration over the course of treatment. It examines the benefits of monitoring patients’ progress and providing feedback to practitioners, a a low cost, simple intervention that improves care and reduces the number of treatment failures. Progress feedback uses standardized measures to routinely evaluate treatment progress regularly throughout treatment, and helps the practitioner decide whether adaptations in the treatment approach are necessary. Chapters include case materials and detailed descriptions of how to use different feedback systems in clinical practice. This enhances practitioner judgment regarding which system is the most appropriate for each individual case.

This invaluable guide provides practitioners with ways to address treatment non-response and intervene in time before a failing situation becomes treatment failure.

Introduction into feedback informed psychological therapy.- Feedback-informed psychological therapy in practice the Trier Treatment Navigator.- The TTN in practice clinical training and supervision.- Advances in Routine Outcome Monitoring and Feedback Systems Insights from the Greifswald Psychotherapy Navigation System.- The OQ Analyst.- Clinical Support Tools for Treatment Adaptation in Non-Improving Cases.- A dynamic feedback tool for clinical practice Norse Feedback.- Advances in ESM derived feedback integrated into psychotherapy.- Feedback in the treatment of suicidality.- Feedback in rehabilitation settings.- Outcome and Therapeutic Relationship Feedback in Group Therapy.- Feedback Technology for Practice and Research.- Opportunities and Obstacles When Implementing Feedback Informed Treatment Into Practice Learning from Experience with the Trier Treatment Navigator.- Transforming Data into Action A Case Study on Progress Feedback in Youth Mental Health.

Prof. Julian Rubel (PhD) studied Psychology at the University of Trier (Germany) from 2007-2011. After his studies he started his dissertation project in the group of Wolfgang Lutz in Trier focusing on patterns of change in psychotherapy. He finished his PhD in 2015 with honors and proceeded working at Trier University as a post-doc until 2019. From 2019-2021 he was an assistant professor and from 10/2021 to 02/2023 full professor for psychotherapy research at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Since 03/2023 he is full professor and chair of the unit Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of Adulthood. His research focuses on a broad range of topics aiming at improving our understanding of the mechanisms underlying psychotherapy and the development and evaluation of empirically supported tools to prevent treatment failure and premature termination. 

Prof. Wolfgang Lutz, (PhD) completed his doctorate in Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, a post-doctorate at Northwestern University, USA and a research professorship at the University of Berne (Switzerland). He is currently full professor and chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Trier/Germany as well as director of the clinical training program and the outpatient research clinic. He is one of the pioneers of precision mental health and has worked in the field of routine outcome monitoring and measurement-based care for over 30 years. He has more than 400 publications (peer-reviewed papers, chapters and books) including the 7th edition of the Bergin & Garfield’s Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change, which he co-edited with Michael Barkham and Louis G. Castonguay. He is a past editor of Psychotherapy Research, a co-editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and Behavior Therapy and serves on the editorial board of several leading journals in the field. He was president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) and has been recognized by various awards and fellowships, including the SPR’s Early Career Contribution Award and distinguished research and leader recognition from the Association for Psychological Science (APS).