By Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD
on 2/20/11 - 2:56 PM
How can our clients pick the most effective therapist? <em>They can’t</em>. There is no industry standard for tracking and reporting psychotherapy outcomes. This won’t last. Regulators and consumers are going to demand public accounting of treatment effectiveness. If I have the right to ask my surgeon for their success rate, then why can’t my clients ask for mine?
By Victor Yalom, PhD
on 8/30/10 - 10:52 PM
<br /><strong>It’s been twenty-plus years now</strong> of returning from some sort of summer vacation to resume seeing clients. I wake up this morning, still unsettled from my dream life, reminded that my own anxiety, seemingly under wraps, is not too far from the surface. As I mentally ready myself to go back to work, images and memories seep in from prior years: early in my career nervously wondering whether any clients would return; other times eagerly anticipating seeing a specific client or...
