The compass in question is an outcome/change management system that emerged, independently but at about the same time as CORE and the OQ system. It’s not clear to me in 2021 whether it has survived and if so, in what form and name. There’s a nice review of the book that announced the system (Jones, A. (1999). TreatmentOutcomes in Psychotherapy and Psychiatric Interventions Len Sperry, Peter L. Brill, Kenneth I. Howardand Grant R. Grissom. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1996. pp. 236. £23.50 (paperback). Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 27(2), 195–197. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465899210740). The review is by Alan Jones: Jones, A. (1999). TreatmentOutcomes in Psychotherapy and Psychiatric Interventions Len Sperry, Peter L. Brill, Kenneth I. Howardand Grant R. Grissom. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1996. pp. 236. £23.50 (paperback). Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 27(2), 195–197. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465899210740. I particularly like his comment:
By this stage, I would suspect that most readers who work in such settings would be experiencing very mixed emotions. One emotion might be that of wishing that such a comprehensive and well-developed system was in place in our own services, to avoid the tedious business of reinventing the wheel and devising new outcome measures with every new audit initiative; another might be a certain amount of unease about how one’s performance might stand up against the therapist norms that the COMPASS system incorporates!
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