Horizon Treatment Services
Measurement Based Care Ep 02
Horizon Treatment is making moves and maximizing client outcomes!
Allow us to introduce Joanna Conti, CEO and President of Vista Research. In this episode, she will discuss our new pilot project - measurement-based care (MBC. A practice of basing clinical care on client data collected during treatment. MBC is an established evidence-based framework that provides insight into one’s treatment progress by way of measuring real-time improvement (or sometimes not) in symptomatology (Scott & Lewis, 2015).
It has been used in behavioral health treatment settings to measure a broad range of symptoms from depression, anxiety, and trauma to name a few; with results reviewed by the client and clinician to assess how well one is responding to certain interventions. Indeed, researchers have found that this feedback process has intervention properties which triggers positive change in a high percentage of patient encounters. This is achieved through the very process of symptom monitoring, improving communication between patient and clinician, and effecting patient changes in self-efficacy and quality of life (Aboraya A;Nasrallah HA;Elswick DE;Ahmed E;Estephan N;Aboraya D;Berzingi S;Chumbers J;Berzingi S;Justice J;Zafar J;Dohar S, 2018).
With such promising evidence supporting MBC’s effectiveness with our client population and with a demonstrated ability to improve treatment retention and related outcomes (Miller et al., 2017), how could we resist?
In addition to providing our residential program with the tools necessary to measure a person's symptoms, Vista Research Group's innovative platform also integrates an alarming mechanism that alerts our clinicians to critical client reports of self-harming thoughts.
Horizon Treatment is making moves and maximizing client outcomes!
Allow us to introduce Joanna Conti, CEO and President of Vista Research. In this episode, she will discuss our new pilot project - measurement-based care (MBC. A practice of basing clinical care on client data collected during treatment. MBC is an established evidence-based framework that provides insight into one’s treatment progress by way of measuring real-time improvement (or sometimes not) in symptomatology (Scott & Lewis, 2015).
It has been used in behavioral health treatment settings to measure a broad range of symptoms from depression, anxiety, and trauma to name a few; with results reviewed by the client and clinician to assess how well one is responding to certain interventions. Indeed, researchers have found that this feedback process has intervention properties which triggers positive change in a high percentage of patient encounters. This is achieved through the very process of symptom monitoring, improving communication between patient and clinician, and effecting patient changes in self-efficacy and quality of life (Aboraya A;Nasrallah HA;Elswick DE;Ahmed E;Estephan N;Aboraya D;Berzingi S;Chumbers J;Berzingi S;Justice J;Zafar J;Dohar S, 2018).
With such promising evidence supporting MBC’s effectiveness with our client population and with a demonstrated ability to improve treatment retention and related outcomes (Miller et al., 2017), how could we resist?
In addition to providing our residential program with the tools necessary to measure a person's symptoms, Vista Research Group's innovative platform also integrates an alarming mechanism that alerts our clinicians to critical client reports of self-harming thoughts.