ABSTRACT
Therapists can readily study client progress during psychotherapy through employing measures that track change, client satisfaction, and therapy process. This chapter looks at how therapists can incorporate such sources of information to inform treatment. Research has repeatedly shown that clients' and therapists' views of change are quite different. A client's view of therapy can be assessed through simple, quickly completed scales that can be given at random times during the course of treatment or mailed to the client after treatment ends; assessing at the conclusion of therapy more accurately taps clients' true feelings. One may not know what the outcome of therapy will be until after the end of therapy, but examining aspects of the treatment process while it is going on can help a therapist determine whether treatment is more or less likely to be successful. It seems obvious to measure clients at the beginning and end of therapy to learn how successful the treatment has been.
