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Give yourself a holiday gift and benefit from the early bird rate for the three-day Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT) online training in Australian time zones on June 3-5, 2025. There are 18 CE credits are available for this uplifting training.
The training will be led by Dr. Scott D. Miller and his team who have trained many practitioners in the USA and internationally for over two decades. Scott Miller is the founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE). The ICCE is a world-wide non-for-profit community of practitioners, healthcare managers, educators, and researchers dedicated to promoting excellence in behavioral healthcare services through Feedback-Informed Treatment and Deliberate Practice (DP).
What is FIT?
FIT is an empirically supported, pantheoretical (1) approach for evaluating and improving the quality and effectiveness of behavioral health services. It involves routinely and formally soliciting feedback from clients regarding the therapeutic alliance (relationship) and outcome (results) of care and using the resulting information to inform and tailor service delivery.
FIT utilizes empirically validated, client rated outcome measures at each session. The FIT training focuses on how to use the two parts of FIT measures. A 1 minute, 4 question survey is given to clients at the beginning of each session called the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS). The ORS measures the client’s therapeutic progress while asking about their level of distress and functioning. A 1 minute 4 question survey called the Session Rating Scale (SRS) is given at the end of the session. The SRS measures the therapeutic alliance. Because FIT is not a model of doing therapy, it may be added to or integrated with any model of behavioural health practice and applied to all diagnostic categories.
Why is FIT an Evidence-Based Practice?
FIT operationalizes the American Psychological Association’s (APA) definition of evidence-based practice. Routine use of the ORS and SRS involves “the integration of the best available research… and monitoring of patient progress…that may suggest the need to adjust the treatment… (e.g., problems in the therapeutic relationship or in the implementation of the goals of the treatment)” (2).
The ORS and SRS were vetted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Registry in 2013 and granted evidence-based status.
What is the Evidence for FIT?
A number of studies and meta-analyses have demonstrated the benefit of routinely monitoring and using client outcome data and feedback to inform care (3).
- Improves client outcomes by 27% (4).
- Increases client retention
- Reduces deterioration rates by 50%
- Shortens lengths of stay
Positive impacts of FIT have been shown in a number of treatment settings including outpatient and inpatient settings, counselling and university training centers, individual and group therapies, and specialized treatment programs.
What Should People Expect in the FIT training?
Watch Scott Miller explain what people can expect when they come to learn about Feedback Informed Treatment.
I’ve Been Using FIT for 20 years
Watch me answer Nathan Castle’s question in 2 minutes about the main benefits to me and my clinical and supervision work.
For more details on how to access the early bird rate for the FIT online training on 3-5 June 2025, click this link.
(1) A pantheoretical approach to therapy can be integrated into and combined with any model of counselling or therapy and across all diagnostic categories. It is not a way of doing therapy, but a way of assessing whether the therapy being done with this client, at this time, in this way and in this setting is effective for the client’s desired outcomes.
(2) APA Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice, 2006, pp. 273, 276-277.
(3) Gondeck, Edbrooke-Child, Fink, Deighton and Wolpert, 2016; Miller and Schuckard, 2013; Lambert and Shimokawa, 2011; Knaup, Koesters, Schoefer, et al., 2009; Miller et. al, 2006; Lambert, Whipple, Hawkins et al, 2003 as cited in Shuckard, E., Miller S., and Hubble, M. A. (2017). Feedback Informed Treatment: Historical and empirical foundations. In D Prescott, C. Maeschalck, and S. Miller (Eds.), Feedback Informed Treatment in Clinical Practice pp. 13-35). American Psychological Association
(4) Miller et al., 2006; Lambert and Shimokawa, 2011.
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