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IX CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL y XIV 
NACIONAL de PSICOLOGÍA CLÍNICA

PALACIO DE LA MAGDALENA
SANTANDER (ESPAÑA), 17-20 de NOVIEMBRE, 2016
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 		Derek Truscott
Professor and Director of Training in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta
CANADÁ
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Dr. Derek Truscott is a Professor and Director of Training in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta and a Registered Psychologist. He is the author of Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada and Becoming an Effective Psychotherapist: Adopting a Theory That’s Right for You and Your Client. He is interested in answering the question of what it takes to be a good psychotherapist. By “good” he means one who is effective, helpful, influential, and impactful – who is sought out by people suffering from personal problems and to whom other therapists refer or seek out themselves. He also means “good” in the sense of one who is ethical, principled, virtuous, and moral – who knows how to do and does the right thing and is sought out by others wanting to do likewise.

INVITED SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT
Using Process-Outcome Feedback in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice
Effective therapy is about doing therapy right—not about doing the right therapy. This is an important distinction. In this symposium, we discuss feedback methods that help therapists ‘do therapy right.’ For decades, scholars have emphasized treatment fidelity, empirically supported treatments, common factors, and evidence-based practice, which have all been hot topics in the field. Here, we emphasize something potentially less divisive: feedback and the routine use of process-outcome measures in training and practice. Presentations are based on two premises: (1) therapists cannot know, in any real way, if they are doing therapy right unless they collect feedback, and (2) doing therapy right is synonymous with promoting empirically supported treatment processes and principles, such as deep in-session emotional experiencing. All contributors will address the question: How can therapists incorporate process and outcome feedback into day-to-day clinical practice to enhance treatment and document their effectiveness?