Psychotherapy in a community mental health facility: a practical and inexpensive approach to outcome assessment

The paper demonstrates how one community mental health facility has engaged in outcome evaluation on a very limited budget. The evaluation model employs quasi-experimental research methodology. Clerical workers were trained to collect the data. Statistical analyses suggested that the treatment was beneficial, a finding further supported by a high level of client satisfaction. A group personality profile of clients seeking treatment from an outpatient center is presented, and the results of the study are discussed in relation to the psychotherapy research literature. The article concludes with a discussion of the ways in which the results of the study were utilized.