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Using Client Assessments to Plan and Monitor Treatment is a guide for using the TCU Client Evaluations of Self and Treatment (TCU CEST) in individual or group counseling settings.   This manual is frequently called by a short title, Using CEST Guide.

Sections of this manual include:
• Introduction: Ingredients of Effective Treatment -- The TCU treatment process framework is summarized, showing how client assessments and interventions “fit together” in adaptive treatment planning.
• Part 1: TCU Client Assessment Scales -- TCU assessments – especially the TCU CEST – are described, including how scales are defined, scored, and interpreted.
• Part 2: Combining Scores for Program Comparisons -- Averages of client scores are discussed as a basis for comparing clients between programs and evaluating changes over time.
• Part 3: Assessment Alternatives and Methods -- Different instruments and formats for conducting client assessments are reviewed, noting that choices depend on program technology and objectives.
• Part 4: Clinical Applications of CEST Scores -- Case study examples illustrate how CEST scores can be used for treatment planning and monitoring or as a group counseling activity.
• Resources and References -- Handouts and templates for applying client assessments discussed in Part 4 are included, along with a list of publication citations.

The Using Client Assessments to Plan and Monitor Treatment manual may be freely used for personal, educational, research, and/or information purposes only.  Permission is hereby granted to reproduce and distribute copies of content material (unless otherwise noted) for nonprofit educational and nonprofit library purposes, provided that copies are distributed at or below costs and that credit for author and source are included on each copy.  No part of any material may be copied, downloaded, stored in a retrieval system, or redistributed for any commercial purpose without the expressed written permission of Texas Christian University.

Recommended Citation:  Simpson, D. D., & Bartholomew, N. G. (2008).  Using Client Assessments to Plan and Monitor Treatment.  Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, Institute of Behavioral Research.  Available for downloading:  IBR Web site: www.ibr.tcu.edu.
  

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The Assessment, Evidence, and Selected References

A description of the TCU CEST assessment is available in this Website’s Form section, under Community Treatment Assessments, where the form can be downloaded.    A criminal justice (TCU CJ CEST) version is also available. 

The Evidence section offers Assessment Fact Sheets on the TCU CEST instrument for both community and CJ settings.
   

Selected References:

Joe, G. W., Broome, K. M., Rowan-Szal, G. A., & Simpson, D. D. (2002).  Measuring patient attributes and engagement in treatment.  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 22(4), 183-196.  [Abstract]

Garner, B. R., Knight, K., Flynn, P. M., Morey, J. T., & Simpson, D. D. (2007). Measuring offender attributes and engagement in treatment using the Client Evaluation of Self and Treatment. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34(9), 1113-1130.   [Abstract]

Greener, J. M., Joe, G. W., Simpson, D. D., Rowan-Szal, G. A., & Lehman, W. E. K.  (2007).  Influence of organizational functioning on client engagement in treatment.  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 33(2), 139-147. PMCID: PMC1994649  [Abstract]  [Author’s manuscript available in PubMed Central]

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Mapping Guides: A Cognitive Strategy Using Visual Representation

Mapping-Enhanced Counseling: An Introduction

Mapping New Roads to Recovery: Cognitive Enhancements to Counseling

TCU Guide Maps:  A Resource for Counselors

Mapping Your Steps: “Twelve Step” Guide Maps

Manuals for Motivation and Induction into Treatment

Getting Motivated to Change

Mapping Your Treatment Plan

Using Client Assessments to Plan and Monitor Treatment

Preparation for Change: Tower of Strengths and the Weekly Planner

Downward Spiral: The game you really don't want to play

Manuals for Improving Engagement in Treatment

Contingency Management Strategies and Ideas

Understanding and Reducing Angry Feelings

Unlock Your Thinking, Open Your Mind

Mapping the Journey: A Treatment Guidebook

Manuals for Improving Early Recovery in Treatment

Ideas for Better Communication

Building Social Networks

Time Out! For Me:  An Assertiveness and Sexuality Workshop for Women

Time Out! For Men: A Communication Skills and Sexuality Workshop for Men

Manuals for Improving Retention and Re-entry

Partners in Parenting

Straight Ahead: Transition Skills for Recovery

Mapping Your Reentry Plan: Heading Home

Common Sense Ideas on HIV Prevention and Sexual Health

Approaches to HIV/AIDS Education in Drug Treatment

Manuals for Organizational Interventions

Mapping Organizational Change: A Guidebook on Program Needs

Team Awareness, Small Business 4-hour Edition: Training for Workplace Substance Abuse Prevention

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