‘Effective’ at What? On Effective Intervention in Serious Mental Illness

Measures of clinically significant change.

“…They also found that the recovery-oriented measures did have good construct and convergent validity in that they were both correlated with one another and matched with the progressive improvement one would expect as a client moves through the theoretical stages of recovery. There is a large body of literature regarding the concept of recovery for individuals with enduring or chronic mental illness (e.g., Davidson et al, 2005;Hawthorne & Williams-Wengerd, 2019). This literature seems qualitatively different from the statistical methods used to assess clinically meaningful change in outpatient psychotherapy and could potentially be examined in a separate review.…”