Posted: May 11th, 2015

Client Directed Outcome Informed counselling

Rationale for assessment: The counselling world has a history of promoting traditions, theories, and fads about what enhances counselling effectiveness. This assessment aims to assist students to gain an outcome research informed perspective about what improves counsellor performance and client outcomes. Students will also be able to describe what CDOI work is and document the evidence that supports this approach.

Doing what works in counselling

Describe how counselling outcome research led to the development of the Client Directed Outcome Informed (CDOI) principles and practice. Describe what CDOI is. 50%
Differentiate between the CDOI meta-model and counselling models. Should counselling models and interventions be discarded when one adopts CDOI? Why or why not? 20%
Provide strategies for how a professional counsellor can improve their outcomes, with justification from outcome research. 15%
The following texts may assist in your assignment:

Duncan, B. L. (2010). On becoming a better therapist. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Duncan, B. L., Miller, S. D., & Sparks, J. A. (2004). The heroic client: A revolutionary way to improve effectiveness through client-directed, outcome-informed therapy (rev ed.). San Francisco: Josey-Bass.

Duncan, B. L., Miller, S. D., Wampold, B. E., & Hubble, M. A. (Eds.). (2010). The heart and soul of change: Delivering what works in therapy (2nd ed.). Washington: American Psychological Association.

Miller, S. D., Duncan, B. L., & Hubble, M. A. (1997). Escape from Babel: toward a unifying language for psychotherapy practice. New York: WW Norton & Company.

Miller, S. D., Duncan, B. L., & Hubble, M. A. (2004). Beyond integration: The triumph of outcome over process in clinical practice. Psychotherapy in Australia, 10(2), 2-19.

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