Training and resources
Training
A vision of the SCORE consortium is to develop a practice-based dataset of student outcomes from counselling and psychological therapies to explore and demonstrate effectiveness in the sector. This type of activity is needed to inform conversations and decisions about psychological services embedded in further and higher education.
This page includes resources and recommendations from our research to facilitate best practices for using measures and making data-informed decisions in student support services.
Get in touch if you would like support or advice for adopting best practices for using measures or making data-informed decisions in your service.
Routine Outcome Monitoring and Feedback in Psychological Therapies
Authors: Kim de Jong, Jaime Delgadillo, & Michael Barkham
Using Routine Outcome Monitoring and Feedback helps to make psychological therapies more effective, according to scientific literature in the field of mental health. This playlist of videos has been developed to support psychological therapists to integrate these effective methods into their practice, and to support educators to integrate this content into their psychotherapy training courses.
All topics covered in these videos are discussed in greater depth in a clinical textbook by Kim de Jong, Jaime Delgadillo and Michael Barkham.
Further information:
The Student Services Partnerships Evaluation and Quality Standards (SPEQS)
Authors: Emma Broglia, Kirsty Nisbet, Hannah Chow, Clare Bone, Melanie Simmonds-Buckley, Louise Knowles, Gillian Hardy, Laura Gibbon, & Michael Barkham
The SPEQS toolkit aims to facilitate and evaluate partnerships between university and NHS mental health services. The toolkit was developed collaboratively with Student Minds, Universities UK, NHS England and five regional hubs in England.
Toolkit Domains
Co-producing partnerships with students
Collecting and sharing data
Managing risk across partnerships
Measuring psychological outcomes
Evaluating services and partnerships
Resources
Watch the HE Professional interview between authors and Universities UK
Listen to the SMaRteN podcast between authors and a student researcher
Past Training
Working with counselling service data: How to download data from CORE Net
This free online workshop took place in 2019 and we covered how to use CORE Net to explore counselling service data, including data from clinical measures and demographic information. We also covered the concept of pseudonymisation and how to process data so that personal information is no longer attributed to individual clients. This is a technique that can be used to prepare service data to be analysed.
This workshop provided practical exercises and a friendly space to share good practice and learn tips from other service leads, practitioners, and our workshop facilitators.
Workshop details
The workshop included:
An introduction to the SCORE consortium
Findings from analysing data from four counselling services
Exporting data from CORE Net
A practical exercise working on your service data
Processing and pseudonymising dummy data
Opportunities for one-to-one support
After the workshop there was an opportunity for delegates to contribute their pseudonymised service data to the SCORE dataset and join the national movement for building evidence for the sector. This was optional, and delegates were supported by the consortium to apply for ethics to permit data sharing.
Please get in touch if you are interested in attending a similar online workshop in the future. Our consortium offers expertise in extracting and analysing data from CORE Net, Titanium, and PCMIS.