In Using Client Feedback in Therapy, Barry L. Duncan illustrates his client-directed, outcome-informed approach to psychotherapy, which enlists the use of client feedback to ensure a positive treatment outcome. In this process, the client's voice is a highly integrated part of how the service is delivered, with feedback about therapeutic benefit and the quality of the alliance both shaping how therapy unfolds and demonstrating its effectiveness.
In this session, Dr. Duncan works with a woman in her 40s who is struggling to make sense of the end of her marriage. While the client has successfully moved on from the termination of her relationship, she is still nagged by a lack of understanding of how it happened and what responsibility she carried as a partner.
About the Author :
Barry L. Duncan, PsyD, is a therapist, trainer, and researcher with more than 17,000 hours of clinical experience. He is director of the Heart and Soul of Change Project, a practice-driven training and research initiative that focuses on what works in therapy and, more importantly, how to deliver it on the front lines via client-based outcome feedback.
Dr. Duncan has over 100 publications as well as 15 books to his credit, including The Heroic Client, Brief Intervention for School Problems, and the second edition of The Heart and Soul of Change.
He is the co-developer of the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS), Session Rating Scale (SRS), Child ORS, and Child SRS, which are measures designed to give clients the voice they deserve, as well as to provide clients, clinicians, administrators, and payers with feedback about the client's response to services, thus enabling more effective care tailored to client preferences.
Because of his self-help books, he has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, and several other national TV programs. His latest self-help book, What's Right With You, demonstrates how to rally natural resources and resiliency's to overcome life challenges.
Dr. Duncan conducts seminars internationally in hopes of inciting insurrection against practices that diminish clients and encouraging therapists to establish their own identity.
