Using the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 as Feedback Instruments in Brief Psychotherapy

Using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item Scale (GAD-7) as Feedback Instruments in Brief Psychotherapy

This study will assess the effects of client feedback, using the Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 and Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item Scale, on depression and anxiety in individuals undergoing brief psychotherapy. Client feedback allows therapists to monitor treatment progress in real time. Identifying an easily accessible treatment intervention, which utilizes commonly used scales, that potentially enhances the effect of brief psychotherapy and improves treatment outcomes is a valuable endeavor with clear implications for therapy practices. It is hypothesized that clients who complete these scales each session will show greater symptom improvement than clients who do not complete the scales.

Clients will complete symptom and quality of life scales before their first session and before their last or tenth session, whichever occurs first. Clients will not complete any scales during other sessions.

Clients will complete symptom and quality of life scales before their first session and before their last or tenth session, whichever occurs first. Clients will then complete symptoms scales, specifically the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item Scale before each other session. The treating clinician will review and discuss their results and at the beginning of each session.

Clients will complete symptom and quality of life scales before their first session and before their last or tenth session, whichever occurs first. Clients will then complete symptoms scales, specifically the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item Scale before each other session. The treating clinician will not have access to these results.

Clients complete rating scales before each therapy session. The therapist then views these results and discusses treatment progress with the client during the session.

Clients complete rating scales before each therapy session. Progress is not reviewed with the therapist.

Inclusion Criteria: Diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or Adjustment Disorder Exclusion Criteria: Require a higher level of care than brief psychotherapy, or have been diagnosed with an intellectual disability, personality disorder, substance use disorder, or major medical illness

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