Outcome Questionnaire 45.2

The Need for The Outcome Questionnaire 45.2 During counseling, it is essential to monitor client’s progress in treatment. Counselor’s desire to be able to establish if their treatment plan is effective. A successful way counselor’s are able to identify if the client is progressing positively or negatively in treatment is through the use of The Outcome Questionnaire 45.2. The counselor can use this questionnaire in order to receive feedback from clients. This feedback allows counselors to adjust treatment plans accordingly (Whiston, 2013).
Explaining The Outcome Questionnaire to A Client As a future counselor, I desire to clarify all details when asking them to participate in any kind of assessment. It is critical client’s are aware of what is being measured and observed. I will explain to my clients the importance of feedback and how it can have a tremendous impact on the treatment process (Whiston, 2013). A full explanation of the assessment, including its purpose, validity, reliability, scoring, benefits, and limitations is essential.
The Outcome Questionnaire 45.2 The Outcome Questionnaire 45.2 is a 45-item questionnaire that can be conducted to track a client’s symptomology on a session-by-session basis. Each item will be designed on a likert type rating scale from 0 – 4 (Beretvas & Kearney, 2003). It is important to …show more content…
The Outcome Questionnaire has high validity, for the fact it predicts treatment failure and signals counselors if a negative treatment outcome will occur. It is shown, 85-100 percent of treatment failures can be identified through The Outcome Questionnaire 45.2 within a few weeks of the counseling process. The Outcome Questionnaire 45.2 consumes a very high internal consistency of .90, test retest reliability of .84, and concurrent validity of mid 80’s (Lambert, 2012). It is essential clients are aware of how valid and reliable the assessment exists