Sierra Tucson & Addiction Professional Webinar

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Topic: Measuring Clinical Outcomes. The Importance of Why, the Integrity of What, and the Significance of How.

Speaker: Antoinette Giedzinska, PhD

Frequently referred to as “measurement-based care” or “routine outcomes measurement,” using objective data to track the impact of care, treatment, or services has become a high-profile issue in the behavioral health care field. Progress and outcome data derived through standardized instruments may be used to inform goals and objectives, monitor individual progress, and inform decisions related to individual plans for care, treatment, or services. Although patients may experience and report their growth and improvement through their subjective experience as a result of therapy, receiving objective data concerning their progress can meaningfully contribute to their sense of treatment efficacy, and pave the way for “next steps” on their therapeutic life journey. From an organizational level, the implementation of data collection using standardized and validated assessments can build a repository of bio-psycho-social functioning that will provide information of programmatic efficacy and aggregate patient progress. Additionally, analyzing the multifactorial nature of veritable integrative mental health approaches through systematic and robust multivariate statistical analyses, will provide deeper insight into the mediational, interactive, and predictive nature of treatment and its outcomes. Such data can be utilized to inform organizational performance improvement efforts and to evaluate outcomes of care, treatment, or services provided to the population(s) served.

Objectives:

*Explain the rationale for the importance of measurement-based care into clinical practice.

*Identify 3 challenges related to implementing a concurrent outcomes process.

*Describe at least 2 appropriate methods to analyze outcome data from the individual to aggregate levels.

Antoinette Giedzinska, PhD, also known as Dr. Antoinette, is the Director of Behavioral Medicine at Sierra Tucson. She began her career at Sierra Tucson in 2008 providing psychometric assessment and interpretation, in addition to developing psycho-educational curricula for Sierra Tucson’s Pain Recovery Program. During 2009, she created and implemented the bio/neurofeedback program into the Sierra Tucson treatment process, utilizing integrative psychoneurophysiological therapeutics delivered by a talented team of Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA) professionals. Beginning in 2013, Dr. Antoinette spearheaded Sierra Tucson’s outcomes research platform with the aim of assessing patient progress in the short and long term, post-discharge. She currently oversees the psychology department as well, providing direction to further integrate psychological consultation and psychometric evaluation to support Sierra Tucson’s treatment teams in their efforts to provide excellent patient care.
Dr. Antoinette received her Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology from the University of Southern California, where her training emphasized behavioral medicine, clinical research, and neuropsychology. She has authored several scientific publications addressing psychological correlates of cancer quality of life, program development, and patient treatment decision-making. Her enthusiasm as a scientist/practitioner is not only to support and educate patients toward resiliency, quality of life enhancement, and stress reduction and management, but also to continue one of her passions in life: to actively advance the field of integrative mental health. Emotional suffering, addiction, and mental health issues are complex and complicated; the approach to treating these issues should embrace the essence of the bio-psycho-social-spiritual perspective. Thus, Dr. Antoinette is currently working on implementing a viable outcomes research program to disseminate the multivariate nature of complicated mental health issues. This new paradigm in integrative mental health will consider how the multifactorial nature of veritable integrative mental health approaches, through systematic and robust multivariate statistical analyses, will provide deeper insight into the mediational, interactive, and predictive nature of treatment and its outcomes. 

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This is a Sierra Tucson co-hosted webinar with Addiction Professional

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