Student Counselling Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SCORE)

SCORE Vision

Read our latest Blog on PCMIS where we describe our vision to Develop and deliver evidence-based practice for student mental health

The Student Counselling Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SCORE) consortium comes out of a long-running wish in the university and colleges sector to create a shared routine outcomes database to provide evidence for the sector and to improve service delivery. 

Pooling data collected routinely by counselling services will enable new analyses that are not possible to explore with data from a single service. Such analyses will inform the development of fit-for-purpose tools and contribute to the evidence base for student counselling.  

Progress to date has included: working with four measures – the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation Outcome Measure (CORE-OM), the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS), the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7). We have also worked with two commonly used computer systems, Titanium and CORE-Net, and are in the process of collating data from measures employed at every session.

Funding

The work of the SCORE consortium has predominantly relied on volunteered time from practitioners and researchers. Our activities are also supported by two professional organisations; the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), through in-kind contributions of staff time (BACP) and one-off funding to deliver training workshops (UKCP). 

Would you like to join SCORE?

We are inviting more members to consider joining SCORE – whether you are a practitioner or head of service working in an FE/HE counselling and/or mental health service, a researcher with expertise to add to the group, or an organisation wishing to shape our work.

Contact Emma: e.l.broglia@sheffield.ac.uk