David R. Kraus

TL;DR: The benefits, obstacles, and challenges that can hinder (and have hindered) implementation of routine outcome monitoring in clinical practice are reviewed.

TL;DR: Therapist domain-specific effectiveness correlated poorly across domains, suggesting that therapist competencies may be domain or disorder specific, rather than reflecting a core attribute or underlying therapeutic skill construct.

TL;DR: A number of studies that evaluate the initial psychometrics of the items that comprise the mental health symptom and functional modules of the TOP conclude that the TOP has an excellent factor structure, good test-retest reliability, promising initial convergent and discriminant validity, and measures the full range of pathology on each scale.

TL;DR: The article illustrates how the TOP can inform several aspects of clinical work, such as the development of case formulations, facilitation of client-therapist communication, tracking of change during treatment, and the documentation of specific area of therapist expertise.

TL;DR: Results demonstrated that therapist effectiveness was relatively stable, although somewhat domain specific, and therapists classified as "exceptional" were significantly more likely to remain above average with future cases, suggesting that a therapist's past performance is an important predictor of their future performance.