ReviewJournal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53
To Utility and Beyond! Specifying and Advancing the Utility of Measurement-Based Care for Youth.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Young People's Experiences Using a Digital Mental Health Tool to Support Their Care in a Real-World Service: Lived Experience-Led Qualitative Study.JMIR mental health · 2025Trial
- Parenting Interventions for Child Mental Health: The Science and Practice of Measurement-Based Care.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Review
- Barriers to and facilitators of measurement-based care in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment: A systematic review.Journal of military, veteran and family health · 2026Review
- Moving toward equitable juvenile justice risk assessments for adolescents: Considering clinical, community, and statistical fairness.Psychological assessment · 2026Article
- Goal consensus and task agreement as predictors of attendance and compliance in community-based treatments for adolescents with emotional disorders.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Personalized and collaborative use of digital measurement-based care tools enhances engagement among young adults: a mixed-methods study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Provider Use of, Attitudes Towards, and Self-efficacy with Key Measurement-based Care Practices in Youth Mental Health Treatment: A Multi-site Examination.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Article
- Using Progress Feedback to Enhance Treatment Outcomes: A Narrative Review.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Review
- Youth, caregiver, and clinician perspectives of youth Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in a psychological training clinic: lessons from early adopters.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Measurement-Based Care in Youth: An Opportunity for Better Clinical Outcomes?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Study protocol: Novel Methods for Implementing Measurement-Based Care with youth in Low-Resource Environments (NIMBLE).Implementation science communications · 2023Article
- Mental health challenges faced by autistic people.Nature human behaviour · 2023Review
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Mental health organizations that serve youth are under pressure to adopt measurement-based care (MBC), defined as the continuous collection of client-report data used to support clinical decision-making as part of standard care. However, few frameworks exist to help leadership ascertain how to select an MBC approach for a clinical setting. This paper seeks to define how an MBC approach can display clinical utility to provide such a framework. Broadly, we define clinical utility as evidence that an MBC approach assists stakeholders in fulfilling clinical goals related to care quality (i.e., improve client-clinician alliance and clinical outcomes) at the client (i.e., youth and caregiver), clinician, supervisor, and administrator levels. More specifically, our definition of clinical utility is divided into two categories relevant to the usability and usefulness of an MBC approach for a specific setting: (a) implementability (i.e., evidence indicating ease of use in a clinical setting) and (b) usefulness in aiding clinical activities (i.e., evidence indicating the potential to improve communication and make clinical activities related to care quality easier or more effective). These categories provide valuable information about how easy an MBC approach is to use and the potential benefits that the MBC data will confer. To detail how we arrived at this definition, we review prior definitions of clinical utility, discuss how previous definitions inform our definition of clinical utility for MBC, and provide examples of how the concept of clinical utility can be applied to MBC. We finish with a discussion of future research directions.
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