Helping you make a meaningful difference – why you became a therapist in the first place.

Barry and the HSCP Certified Trainers offer a number of training opportunities aimed at helping you, your agency, or third-party payers improve the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical and social services via the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS). We offer phone and email consultations, webinars, on-site workshops and consultations, and conferences. Please see the links below for details.

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There are five features of training and implementation of client directed, outcome informed (CDOI) clinical work and the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS) that distinguish the Heart and Soul of Change Project:

1. Attention to the common factors of change and the evidence demonstrating that most of therapist variability is accounted for by alliance abilities: PCOMS, the feedback intervention, is viewed as an interconnected part of the healing factors of psychotherapeutic intervention and the tie that binds the other factors together allowing the factors to be expressed one client at a time. Soliciting systematic feedback is a living, ongoing process that engages clients in the collaborative monitoring of outcome, heightens hope for improvement, fits client preferences, maximizes therapist-client fit and client participation, and is itself a core feature of therapeutic change. The natural fit between the common factors research literature and PCOMS is integral to the implementation process of the Heart and Soul of Change Project.

2. A focus on the clinical nuances of using PCOMS as detailed in On Becoming a Better Therapist, addressing how to get the maximum feedback effect. Although the now 300,000 administrations of the measures and all the information that has yielded in terms of the psychometrics of the measures, trajectories, algorithms, etc., has been invaluable, PCOMS remains a clinical intervention embedded in the complex interpersonal process we call psychotherapy. The Heart and Soul of Change Project keeps this in mind and therefore appeals to the clinician in ways the numbers never can.

3. Similarly, a focus on therapist development and how therapists naturally want to get better over the course of their careers provides a positive motivation for therapists to invest time and energy in PCOMS. There will always be organizational motivations for PCOMS in terms of improved outcome and reduced costs–the language of “return on investment” and “proof of value.” But there is also the personal motivation of the therapist, the very reason most of us got into this business in the first place: to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. Research demonstrates that nearly all therapists want to continue to improve over their careers and harnessing this motivation is part and parcel of how the Heart and Soul of Change Project implements PCOMS.

4. Attention to Multiculturalism and Social Justice is a key element of PCOMS (and of the Training of Trainers Conference). Client privilege and voice form the foundation of the PCOMS intervention. Privileging the client via PCOMS levels the counseling process by inviting collaborative decision making, honoring client diversity with multiple language availability, valuing local cultural and contextual knowledge, and amplifying the voice of the disenfranchised. We see PCOMS as a way of building cultural proficiency.

5. Attention to the concept of “Recovery” as defined by the National Consensus Statement is core to PCOMS and a natural fit—a journey best directed by the individual in the context of a true partnership providing both hope and accountability. PCOMS offers a vital way to operationalize the Consensus Statement into clinical practice.

Questions about training or want to schedule a workshop in your area? Email us at: barrylduncan@comcast.net.

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HSCP Training of Trainers Conference…Learn how to implement CDOI and PCOMS in your agency or become a Certified Trainer. The dates for TOT 2012 are posted. Check out what the 2011 participants said about the training.

Training with Barry…from the tried and true “Heroic Client” to the brand new “On Becoming a Better Therapist”

HSCP Certified Trainers of CDOI…special expertise in a variety of settings and clients

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Heart and Soul of Change Conference…and a good time was had by all

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