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Do Psychotherapists Improve with Time and Experience?

The practice known as “routine outcome measurement,” or ROM, is resulting in the publication of some of the biggest and most clinically relevant psychotherapy studies in history. Freed from the limits of the randomized clinical trial, and accompanying obsession with manuals and methods, researchers are finally able to examine what happens in real world clinical… — read more

Oct 27, 2015
How Cool is Kuhl? A Man with Vision on a Mission

This week, my colleague and friend, Dr. David Mee-Lee, sent me a link to a blogpost written by Don Kuhl. Actually, I was already a subscriber to Don’s Minful MIDweek blog (you should be too), but my travel this week had prevented me from reading his latest installment. His posts always leave me inspired and give me something… — read more

Apr 19, 2013
What is the Real Source of Effectiveness in Smoking Cessation Treatment? New Research on Feedback Informed Treatment

When it rains, it pours! So much news to relay regarding recent research on Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT). Just received news this week from ICCE Associate Stephen Michaels that research using the ORS and SRS in smoking cessation treatment is in print! A few days prior to that, Kelley Quirk sent a copy of our… — read more

Nov 24, 2012
Clinical Support Tools for the ORS and SRS

I have so much to be grateful for at this time. Most of all, I’m happy to be home with my family. As we have in the past, this year we’ll be spending the holiday at the home of our long time friends John and Renee Dalton. The two always put out a fantastic spread and our son,… — read more

Nov 20, 2012
An Easy Way to Improve Our Schools (and Psychotherapy)

If you didn’t see the October Atlantic Monthly, you really missed a great issue. In it, Amanda Ripley wrote a delightful and informative article about a simple and straightforward method for improving the performance of the public schools: have kids grade teachers. What kind of grades you ask? Not those on standardized achievement tests, and certainly not measures of a… — read more

Nov 13, 2012
The Road to Clinical Excellence is Paved with Practice, Mistakes, & Hard Work

Last week, I received an email from friend and ICCE member David Claud. I’ve known Dave for the better part of a decade, having met–I believe–at a Ericksonian conference in Florida where he lives and works. He and the crew at the Center for Family Service in Palm Beach County figure prominently in the history… — read more

May 19, 2010
International "Achieving Clinical Excellence" Conference

Mark your calendars! The International Center for Clinical Excellence is pleased to announce the “Achieving Clinical Excellence” (ACE) conference to be held at the Westin Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri on October 20-22nd, 2010. K. Anders Erickson, Ph.D., the editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance and recognized “expert on experts,” will keynote… — read more

Sep 12, 2009
Superior Performance as a Psychotherapist: First Steps

So what is the first step to improving your performance? Simply put, knowing your baseline. Whatever the endeavor, you have to keep score. All great performers do. As a result, the performance in most fields has been improving steadily over the last 100 years. Consider, for instance, the Olympics. Over the last century, the best… — read more

Apr 1, 2009

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