Measurement-based care is intended as an approach that ensures repeated, accurate assessment of progress (or lack thereof) in treatment. The use of MBC is one of the core values in Upward’s approach to treatment.
Research on Evidence-Based Psychotherapy (EBP) compares a protocol against another treatment approach in order to demonstrate that the EBP is more effective than the other approach. In order to be considered an EBP, a protocol must repeatedly be demonstrated in well-conducted research studies to be effective at a level that can’t be accounted for by chance. EBPs that are supported again and again by research eventually become known as “gold-standard” treatments and are generally considered by the healthcare community to be the best treatment approaches because they have been demonstrated repeatedly to be the most likely to bring about change or relief for the clients who receive them.
Mental health symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, depression, and PTSD affect members of all racial, ethnic, and sexual orientation/identity communities at similar rates; however, for individuals who are not a part of what would be considered the “majority” community in Alabama (“majority” meaning white, heterosexual, and Christian), these mental health symptoms can have a disproportionately significant, negative effect. There are several reasons that mental health-related suffering is often more pronounced in minority communities. In this blog post, we will give an overview of some of those reasons.