Is The Therapy Fidelity App Right For You?

Therapy Fidelity is the Swiss Army knife of mental health apps because it provides so many different functions that are common tasks for counseling. Our goal at Scheeringa Mind Company is to provide tools to handle data and monitoring so therapists can focus on the psychotherapy.
 
Therapy Fidelity app list of functions:

1. Assessment. For adults, 74-items comprehensively cover anxiety, depression, PTSD and functional impairment. For children and adolescents, an additional 30 items in the parental survey cover ADHD and  oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). The app automatically provides the right survey based on age and respondent: Adults report on themselves; Children and adolescents report on themselves; or Parents report on children and adolescents.
2. Scores and interpretations are provided for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, Impairment for all ages, plus for ADHD and ODD for youths.
3. The People Like Me function compares a patient’s scores to a database of hundreds of patients who have taken the same measures and who have data on the outcome of their treatment. The likelihood of achieving 30% or more reduction in symptoms with treatment for each condition (e.g., anxiety, depression, etc.) is shown. Users can select from predictors to customize the predictions to match their situations.
4. The Chief Complaint records the primary reason patients are coming for therapy. Users can add to this as understanding of issues deepens over time.
5. The Other Complaints and Concerns recognizes that people are complex and they’ve usually got more than a single chief complaint. This provides a visual reminder of things to work on simultaneously or things to work on later.
6. Set up to three Desired Outcomes you’d like to achieve.
7. Follow step-by-step CBT protocols for anxiety, depression, or PTSD, tailored for adults or youths. Therapists and clients can see the protocol steps together in the office on their own devices. Almost any protocol can be loaded into the app.
8. Track fidelity to protocols.
9. Retake the surveys as many times as desired to monitor outcomes by reduction of symptoms.
10. The Scheeringa Psychotherapy Outcome Measure uses seven questions to monitor outcome on more holistic outcomes than reduction in symptoms.
11. The Resources function allows you to upload handouts or website links that you want to refer to often. You can also upload your favorites to a public library to share with other therapists and patients.
12. For therapists only, there is a continuous self-learning feedback system to make predictions about outcomes at the beginning of treatment and then compare this to actual outcomes later.

 
 Therapists who want to incorporate surveys into their practice but struggled with finding the right ones, calculating scores, interpreting scores, and sharing them with patients will have those steps done automatically. The initial surveys are required to be completed before any of the other functions are enabled. You get a 30-day free trial with no credit card required, and you can invite unlimited numbers of patients.
 
Patients who are looking for more structured therapy experiences can recommend this app to their therapists. Also, this is the only app that allows patients to see the steps of therapy protocols which allows transparency and facilitates understanding the tasks.
 
Physicians can use this for med management when monitoring outcomes. Surveys track symptom changes. Other Complaints and Concerns keeps track of issues when there are months between appointments.
 
Training programs can use this app to supervise trainees on learning protocols and how to integrate survey data into practice.
 
Agencies can facilitate using this app with its clinicians as part of quality control projects.
 
Insurance companies can make this app available to therapists in their networks and encourage its use to enhance measurement-based care and evidence-based therapies.
 
I hope you try the app and find it improves your practice.
 
Best,
Michael Scheeringa, MD, founder