Outcomes Monitoring Presented to the Australian Government Productivity Commission's Public hearing on Mental Health

Julian McNally shares his clinic's experience with outcomes monitoring via ACORN, and makes the argument that outcomes monitoring should be implemented across the field.

These comments were presented to the Australian Government Productivity Commission's Public hearing on Mental Health in Australia.

What they achieved:

- Greater improvement on average per client

- Longer client engagement in treatment (an average of 5 assessments, up from 4.3)

- A longer treatment period (12.3 up from 10.6 weeks,) Longer treatment period is correlated with a lower drop out rate

- A 50% higher rate of improvement per week

- More improvement per session

- A greater proportion of clients improving (73% up from 68% of clients)

- Lower proportion of severely deteriorating clients (4% compared to 6% ACORN user average)

Keep up the excellent work!

Julian is a counseling psychologist at Act of Living, located in Northcote, Victoria, Australia.