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Outcome Rating Scale

The Outcome Rating Scale (ORS) is a 4-item ultra-brief symptom and wellbeing measure designed to track subjective improvement across individual, interpersonal, social, and overall functioning dimensions. Developed by Miller and Duncan, the ORS uses visual analog scales to enable session-by-session outcome monitoring in clinical practice and research. It is paired with the Session Rating Scale (SRS) in measurement-based care protocols to simultaneously track what clients feel and how they are functioning.

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Outcome Rating Scale (ORS)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / psychotherapy-research
  • Miller, S. D., Duncan, B. L., Brown, J., Sparks, J. A., & Claud, D. A. (2003). The Outcome Rating Scale: Preliminary validity studies of a brief, visual, general measure of session effectiveness. Journal of Brief Therapy, 5(2), 23–33. · URL
  • Blakely, C. H., & Dziadosz, C. M. (2015). Outcome Rating Scale and Session Rating Scale. In G. P. Koocher, J. C. Norcross, & S. S. Hill (Eds.), Psychologists' desk reference (3rd ed., pp. 533–538). Oxford University Press. · URL
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