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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.