Comments on: Bringing up Baseline: The Effect of Alliance and Outcome Feedback on Clinical Performance http://centerforclinicalexcellence.com/topperfomanceblog/2010/04/30/bringing-up-baseline-the-effect-of-alliance-and-outcome-feedback-on-clinical-performance/ Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:35:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bernice Lewak Zohn http://centerforclinicalexcellence.com/topperfomanceblog/2010/04/30/bringing-up-baseline-the-effect-of-alliance-and-outcome-feedback-on-clinical-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Bernice Lewak Zohn Mon, 03 May 2010 09:36:39 +0000 http://centerforclinicalexcellence.com/topperfomanceblog/?p=113#comment-110 I hope that your question was not a rhetorical one, Scott! This professional is crossing the Atlantic in October in the hopes of getting "the basics" Bernice I hope that your question was not a rhetorical one, Scott! This professional is crossing the Atlantic in October in the hopes of getting “the basics”
Bernice

]]> By: stephaniedeeley http://centerforclinicalexcellence.com/topperfomanceblog/2010/04/30/bringing-up-baseline-the-effect-of-alliance-and-outcome-feedback-on-clinical-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-99 stephaniedeeley Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:45:34 +0000 http://centerforclinicalexcellence.com/topperfomanceblog/?p=113#comment-99 Perhaps it is, in part, as simple as the fact that self-monitoring behaviour changes that behaviour - presumably through becoming more conscious of it and therefore directing specific attention to it. I am remembering undergrad psychology when we had to monitor a behaviour we wished to change and how we were already altering our behaviour at baseline. This doesn't exactly explain the phenomenon but it creates a parallel model. I also had the idea yesterday that it would be interesting to see how much change in a client's outcomes would occur with regular monitoring and no therapy at all. It is a very common experience for clients to improve just in knowing that they are going to have therapy. What's that all about? Stephanie P.S. Forgive my use of the "u" in behaviour. It is a quirk of my Australian-ness that I refuse to give up unless a journal demands it! Perhaps it is, in part, as simple as the fact that self-monitoring behaviour changes that behaviour – presumably through becoming more conscious of it and therefore directing specific attention to it. I am remembering undergrad psychology when we had to monitor a behaviour we wished to change and how we were already altering our behaviour at baseline. This doesn’t exactly explain the phenomenon but it creates a parallel model.

I also had the idea yesterday that it would be interesting to see how much change in a client’s outcomes would occur with regular monitoring and no therapy at all.

It is a very common experience for clients to improve just in knowing that they are going to have therapy. What’s that all about?

Stephanie

P.S. Forgive my use of the “u” in behaviour. It is a quirk of my Australian-ness that I refuse to give up unless a journal demands it!

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