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The Peabody Treatment Progress Battery (PTPB)

The Peabody Treatment Progress Battery (2nd edition) provides a cohesive, comprehensive, and evidence-based approach to enhancing mental health services for youth aged 11-18 years.

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This battery includes eleven clinically relevant measures of key mental health outcomes and clinical processes. The measures, especially with their repeated use, offer clinicians systematic feedback on their clients, both individually and in relation to other clients served. Such feedback provides rich clinical material for treatment planning, particularly for clients who are not improving as expected. As an integrated set of brief, reliable, and valid instruments, the PTPB (2nd ed.) can be administered efficiently and at low cost.

Highlights of the PTPB (2nd ed.) - in comparison to the first edition of the PTPB:

• Represents a second round of rigorous psychometric testing on a unique assessment battery with a larger population of youth receiving mental health treatment
• Uses the same comprehensive assessment methodology described in Reimer and Kearns' 2010 publication in the premier measurement journal, Psychological Assessment*.
• Measures shortened where possible by eliminating item redundancy while maintaining strong psychometric properties
• Has two parallel short forms (13 items) of the Symptoms and Functioning Severity Scale (SFSS) measuring internalizing and externalizing symptoms that can be completed more frequently
• Inclusion of the Session Report Form (SRF) completed by the clinician at the end of each clinical session to capture the session content and topics addressed in the session)
• Is backward compatible - all items in the second edition are also in the first edition
• Suggested measure schedules for both weekly and less frequent treatment schedules

* Riemer, M., & Kearns, M.A. (2010). Description and psychometric evaluation of the youth counseling impact scale. Psychological Assessment, 22(10), 259-268.

The PTPB Manual (2nd ed.) includes the full PTPB 2nd edition battery and is available at no charge for paper version only. Use in any computerized or electronic media requires an additional license agreement. A completed Registration Form and License Agreement are required. Upon receipt of your information, we will send you an email containing the URL for the Manual of the Peabody Treatment Progress Battery (2nd ed.).

For registrants of the previous version of the PTPB (1st ed., 2007): If you have previously registered for the PTPB (1st ed,), you must re-register by completing the Registration Form and submit the License Agreement for use of the PTPB (2nd ed.).

(If you lose the email containing the URL for the PTPB, please contact us. Please do not re-register unless your information has changed.)

Exciting News!

The PTPB (2^nd ed.) was recently featured in a special issue of Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research on practical multi-informant measurement of youth mental health treatment progress (2012, issue 39, vol 1-2). This special issue includes 13 articles, 11 of which each highlight a specific measure found in the PTPB (2^nd ed.). Below are the titles of these 13 articles.

• Editorial: Why Can't Mental Health Services be More like Modern Baseball?
• The Peabody Treatment Progress Battery: History and Methods for Developing a Comprehensive Measurement Battery for Youth Mental Health
• The Symptoms and Functioning Severity Scale (SFSS): Psychometric Evaluation and Discrepancies among Youth, Caregiver, and Clinician Ratings over Time
• Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale - PTPB Version (BMSLSS-PTPB): Psychometric Properties and Relationship with Mental Health Symptom Severity Over Time
• Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) in Caregivers of Clinically-Referred Youth: Psychometric Properties and Mediation Analysis
• Measurement Quality of the Caregiver Strain Questionnaire-Short Form 7 (CGSQ-SF7)
• Validation and Use of the Children's Hope Scale - Revised PTPB Edition (CHS-PTPB): High Initial Youth Hope and Elevated Baseline Symptomatology Predict Poor Treatment Outcomes
• Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Youth and Caregiver Service Satisfaction Scale
• The Relationship between Change in Therapeutic Alliance Ratings and Improvement in Youth Symptom Severity: Whose ratings matter the most?
• Validation and Use of the Youth and Caregiver Treatment Outcome Expectations Scale (TOES) to Assess the Relationships between Expectations, Pretreatment Characteristics, and Outcomes
• Measuring Youths' Perceptions of Counseling Impact: Description, Psychometric Evaluation, and Longitudinal Examination of the Youth Counseling Impact Scale v.2
• Motivation for Youth's Treatment Scale (MYTS): A New Tool for Measuring Motivation among Youths and Their Caregivers
• The Session Report Form (SRF): Are Clinicians Addressing Concerns Reported by Youth and Caregivers

For journal subscribers or those affiliated with institutional subscribers, click here to access these articles found in the special issue. Non-journal subscribers can contact us at CEPI@vanderbilt.edu for more information about obtaining articles found in the special issue.

IMPORTANT: If you have an email filter, please make changes to allow email from CEPI at Peabody [CEPI@vanderbilt.edu].

Printable flyer on the PTPB (2nd ed.) available by clicking here.

 

Read What Experts are Saying About the PTPB:

Providers of children’s mental health services have long expressed their frustration to the research community at the lack of a comprehensive, feasible, and scientifically developed set of measures for assessing process and outcome. Existing measures have been too time consuming, too limited in the domains and perspectives assessed, too costly, or insufficient with regard to scientific validity. The PTPB is the first comprehensive set of measures that can be used routinely to assess process and outcomes of treatment services across multiple domains and perspectives and it meets the highest level of scientific rigor. The PTPB is even provided at no cost to the field. This is a landmark contribution to children’s mental health services and research. --Abram Rosenblatt, Ph.D., Professor and researcher of clinical trials, outcome, and services research in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco.

The PTPB measurement package developed by Len and his colleagues is a notable effort to fill a much needed gap in the current initiatives to improve mental health care for children through greater use of evidence-based interventions. It provides a sound and efficient set of monitoring tools that is feasible for use in real world mental health settings. Clearly, measures used in the development and testing of evidence based interventions are too burdensome and ill suited for usual clinical practice. As he did in his landmark Fort Bragg and Stark County system of care studies, Len has provided an enormous service to the field of mental health services research and usual clinical care settings by addressing this quality monitoring issue. --John Landsverk, Ph.D., Director of the NIMH funded Child and Adolescent Services Research Center, and Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Work at San Diego State University.

This is a very impressive and comprehensive system for improving clinical and organizational measurement of services in children's mental health. I'm excited about its potential to change routine practice nationally. The system covers all of the important domains that are relevant to delivery of services for children and adolescents with mental health problems and the substantial amount of work that has gone into constructing the scales is outstanding. --Kim Hoagwood, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University.

After years of trying to find a clinical measurement system that was both practical and valid, the PTPB is both of those and more. Our clinicians are getting information they are able to use to inform and enhance treatment. Our supervisors are getting information they can use to help the clinicians grow into better clinicians. Our agency is getting the information on clinical outcomes and processes needed to improve the quality of our services. The PTPB measurement system is useful and user friendly. Even our counselors have said "it's easy and it's giving me information I never would have gotten." We are currently using the PTPB in 40 different locations. --Natasha S. Walsh, LCSW, Vice President of Clinical Services for Providence Service Corporation.

The measurement battery compiled in this collection provides a complete system for making real and measurable changes in mental health services for youth. The range of assessments in a practical package will allow those interested in improving quality the tools necessary to understand both the processes and outcomes across their patient populations. --Kelly Kelleher, MD, MPH, Children's Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio.

Submit your measures for inclusion in the PTPB!

Our goal is to continuously improve the PTPB and include additional measures and scales that address topic areas and age groups currently not covered. Ultimately, we hope that the PTPB becomes the venue for scientifically developed measures to become easily accessible to practitioners and clinical researchers. Just as there are many high-quality software programs available as free shareware, the PTPB can provide a comprehensive collection of high quality clinical measures available at no cost to the users. Furthermore, just as these shareware programs are continuously improved by the data and feedback from the many users, we will collect data and feedback to continuously evaluate and improve the quality of the measures in the PTPB. We invite authors of relevant measures to submit them for inclusion in the PTPB. We will evaluate the measures for certain standards of quality (e.g., Consumer Measurement Systems and Child and Adolescent Mental Health) and we will assist with psychometric analyses, if needed. Once included in the PTPB, the measures will be available to a wide audience and will be marketed as part of the battery. Data collected and made available to us with the new measure will be used for psychometric analyses; it will also be made available to the measure's author. If you are interested in submitting a measure for inclusion in the battery, please contact us.