Using Symptom Measures to Improve Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Work

This training is designed for mental health professionals seeking to enhance their clinical practice by incorporating public domain symptom measures into their assessment and treatment processes. These tools, such as PHQ-A, GAD-7, DERS, PCL, HaQ-ii, and others offer a structured way to evaluate clients' symptoms, track progress over time, and make data-informed treatment decisions. Participants will learn how to effectively integrate these measures into intake sessions, ongoing assessments, and treatment planning, improving both the accuracy of diagnosis and the effectiveness of interventions. Additionally, this training will explore ways to use the data from these tools to foster collaborative treatment discussions and improve therapeutic outcomes.

Training Objectives:

1. Understand the benefits and limitations of public domain symptom measures in clinical practice.
2. Learn how to administer and interpret key public domain measures for anxiety, mood disorders, personality disorders, PTSD, the therapeutic relationship, and other symptoms and behaviors.
3. Develop skills to incorporate symptom measures into clinical assessments and treatment planning.
4. Explore strategies for using outcome data to enhance client engagement and monitor progress.

Presenter

Britt H. Rathbone is an expert in adolescent mental health and is committed to proving evidence-based treatments including CBT, DBT, Unified Protocol, ACT, Behavioral Activation, Prolonged Exposure, and others. He is the founder and director of Capital Youth Services and Rathbone & Associates, a psychotherapy practice focusing on mental health issues and conditions of adolescence.

Mr. Rathbone earned his social work degree from Columbia University in New York and has been a highly rated instructor in the MSW program at the National Catholic University School of Social Service and the University of Maryland. He has decades of experience in adolescent mental health and psychotherapy and he holds the most advanced certifications available through his professional societies. His expertise has been recognized by being consistently named a top therapist for teenagers by Washingtonian magazine. He was the first clinician in Maryland, DC and Virginia to have passed the rigorous standards established by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification and to be recognized as a DBT Certified DBT Clinician.

Mr. Rathbone is the coauthor of the following:

· Dialectical Behavior Therapy for At-Risk Adolescents

· What Works with Teens: An Evidence-Based, Practical Guide for Working Effectively with Adolescents

· Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions,

· Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Group for Adolescents, (chapter) in Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy: A Practitioner's Reference

*Continuing Education Information

Rathbone & Associates is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs and maintains full responsibility for the programs and their content. These trainings qualify for Category I continuing education units. Please contact your state board for verification of reciprocity with other states and professions. In order to receive a certificate, registrants must attend the entire session.

Rathbone & Associates is a sponsor of continuing education credits for psychologists in Maryland under the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Rathbone & Associates maintains responsibility for the program content.

Host or Publisher Rathbone & Associates