A Scoping Review on Client-Focused Feedback System in Psychotherapy: Routine Outcome Monitoring

Abstract

Psychologists want to know what works in therapy, what specific factor benefits the individual, and how to improve the quality of therapy outcomes. According to this aim, empirically supported treatments were developed in 2005 and "Evidence-Based Practice" was put forward. Routine Outcome Measure (ROM) is a feedback system which rooted in Evidence-Based Practice. The aim of the current study is to provide information about the ROM method by making a scoping review. EKUAL, PubMed and Scopus databases were scanned. As a result of the screening, 44 studies in the mental health literature that provided information about ROM were included in the study. The findings obtained from 44 studies were evaluated under 6 main headings: Stages of ROM, advantages of ROM, disadvantages of ROM and obstacles to its use, efficacy of ROM, digitalization of ROM and suggestions for the development of ROM. It can be said that ROM is a promising method in terms of improving the quality of therapies. It is expected that studies on ROM and regular use of ROM in therapies will increase in the future

Keywords

• evidence-based practice
• feedback
• psychotherapy
• routine outcome monitoring
• scoping review