Volume 27, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2018.1062
What is individually tailored mental health care?
Abstract
This paper covers an internet-based clinical assessment, decision and information tool and its empirical support. The implementation of this tool within a clinical training program and outpatient clinic is presented and its clinical application discussed. The focus is on the effects of continuous psychometric assessments, feedback, and a decision support and information tool that is designed to facilitate treatment adaptation. The decision support tool is based on research on tracking and predicting individual change using early response and continuous and discontinuous patterns of change within as well as between treatments. The developed personalized adaptation tool is discussed in relation to implications for practice and future research.
Keywords
Patient-focused research, routine outcome monitoring, precision mental health, clinical support tools