Introduction to the Ohio Scales for Youth
About This Course
2 CECs
The Comprehensive Introduction to the Ohio Scales for Youth course will provide the learner with skills to introduce the scales to youth and families and use them to enhance and monitor treatment. The Ohio Scales for Youth are evidence-based measures to assess and monitor treatment when working with youth and their families.
About the Instructor
Ben Ogles, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Brigham Young University and a licensed clinical psychologist. He studies psychotherapy process, outcome, and training with a specific focus on the measurement of change occurring during mental health interventions. His co-authored books include, Assessing Outcome in Clinical Practice (Allyn and Bacon), Essentials of Outcome Assessment (Wiley), Motivational Interviewing in Higher Education (Charles C. Thomas), and Common Factors Therapy: A Principle-Based Treatment Framework (American Psychological Association).
He, with the help of able students, developed the Ohio Scales for Youth, brief measures of youth problem severity and functioning that are used to assess the benefits of mental health interventions for youth. His research articles focus on topics, such as: the treatment benefits of using routine outcome monitoring (ROM) in practice, the clinically significant benefits of treatment, trajectories of change, potential negative effects of treatment, and discrepancy among various measures of change.
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