The Role of Measurement Based Care in Clinical Supervision

Abstract

Measurement Based Care (MBC) is a method to systematically evaluate treatment as it progresses in real time, integrating standardized and idiographic measures relevant to treatment progress to inform clinical decision making (Fortney et al., 2017). There is a lack of training resources specifically geared toward teaching clinical supervisors how to use MBC during clinical supervision. This study investigates if an asynchronous, video-based training impacts attitudes towards and usage of and attitudes toward using MBC during supervision. Licensed mental health providers who reported currently being clinical supervisors were recruited to watch a training video demonstrating the use of MBC during clinical supervision. After watching the video participants were randomly assigned into two groups: one that received weekly email reminders of the benefits of MBC in supervision, and one that did not. Participants’ attitudes towards MBC and its use in supervision were measured immediately pre- and post-training, and at one-month follow-up. The preliminary results indicate that watching the MBC training video significantly increased supervisors' self-reported attitudes toward MBC, perceived ability to teach the benefits of MBC, and self-reported likelihood of incorporating MBC during clinical supervision when compared to their baseline scores at Survey 1.