Measure Improved Wellbeing or Symptom Reduction?
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Apr 11
- 8 min
Common Misconceptions About Feedback-Informed Treatment
Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT) involves the use of client feedback to inform and guide the therapeutic process. This approach has been...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Mar 22
- 4 min
Why Feedback-Informed Treatment is the Key to Equitable Mental Health Care
Therapists traditionally hold more power than clients in the therapeutic relationship. Therapists are typically the ones who decide on...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Feb 28
- 4 min
Join our FIT Pro Development Community
People seeking mental health support have better outcomes when they get to talk about what is important to them. FIT practitioners check...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Dec 10, 2022
- 5 min
Thinking about your Outcomes
Do you ever wonder how you compare to other mental health professionals within your field? How would you rate your overall clinical...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Sep 28, 2022
- 4 min
Innovation Goals Worth Pursuing
With recent technological advancements in digital patient onboarding is diagnosis treatment matching one of the innovation goals worth...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Aug 15, 2022
- 8 min
The FIT Basics Origin Story, an ICCE eLearning initiative
In 2015, I brought together a consortium of researchers, educators, and clinicians dedicated to understanding and promoting excellence in...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Jul 23, 2022
- 2 min
Get FIT this Summer
Did you know that psychotherapy outcome measures can be used to do more than just track progress and alliance? Feedback-informed...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
What are the Hallmarks of Effective Therapy?
Profession? Years of education? Number of clinical hours? Richard Hill and Matthew Dahlitzm, Directors of the THE SCIENCE OF...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Apr 7, 2022
- 2 min
What is Deliberate Practice?
The purpose of deliberate practice is simple and straightforward: improving outcomes. And ample evidence documents its impact in fields...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Feb 26, 2022
- 2 min
The Mixed Success of FIT and Deliberate Practice
In the last decade, research into FIT has accelerated. We have a much clearer understanding regarding the evidence-based strategies for...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Jan 28, 2022
- 2 min
What is the Session Rating Scale?
The practice of using a version of the Session Rating Scale (SRS) to measure alliance has been popularized by the meta-analytical work of...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Dec 12, 2021
- 2 min
#FeedbackCulture
“…,it's a challenge to implement a practice that embraces the client who give less than stellar ratings and create opportunities to...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
How do most therapists answer this question?
In a video clip from the FIT Basics Course, Scott D. Miller, founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence is recalling the...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Oct 30, 2021
- 1 min
Does Therapy Work?
Today is the first lesson of my newly launched, FIT Basics Training Series. A brief weekly teaching on Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT)....
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Oct 1, 2021
- 1 min
FIT Basics Live Session, Recorded Sept 30, 2021
The first live lesson of my newly launched, FIT Basics Training Series was recorded on Sept 30, 2021 The live session is meant to be for...
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Cindy Hansen, CFT
- Sep 25, 2021
- 2 min
Major Policy Shift for the American Psychiatric Association
I have just registered for the fall APA Conference. Vivian Pender, new APA president has inspired me, She has vowed to make the social...
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