Progress Monitoring In Mental Health and Addiction Treatment: A Means of Improving Care Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Vol 44(4), Aug 2013 Abstract Although monitoring of treatment response is standard practice for many medical conditions, practitioners in mental health treatments, and substance abuse treatment in particular, have been slow to adopt these practices. Progress monitoring (PM), consisting of measurement and feedback, has the potential to significantly improve treatment outcomes. This paper reviews the existing literature on the effects of PM in mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. Whereas previous reviews have examined aspects of PM in mental health treatment, this is the first such review to cover monitoring efforts in substance abuse treatment, conceptualized here as diverse forms of measurement-based care. To address drug use, monitoring in SUD treatment has typically relied on treatment attendance and urine screens as indicators of treatment progress. However, some research has shown that other means of PM can significantly improve SUD treatment effectiveness. Previous meta-analyses show that PM significantly improves outcomes in mental health treatment. More extensive research on three particular measures, demonstrate the effectiveness of PM in mental health treatment. With the growing focus on quality improvement in medical care, there is need for further research and adoption of progress monitoring methods in mental health and SUD treatment.
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