Following the 2009 ASOCHA conference when Colin Benjamin from PACFA challenged our organisation to evaluate the effectiveness of the therapeutic process, the executive of ASOCHA has been busy exploring the most reliable and effective measure.  The Session Rating Scale (SRS) devised by Miller, Duncan and Johnson (2002) appears to be the most useful measure of this.  It focuses on four areas of satisfaction within the therapeutic process.  These include relationship, goals and topics, approach or method, and an overall evaluation of individual sessions.

You are asked to become involved in the process to obtain evidence regarding the efficacy of counselling.  The information that is obtained will provide clients with a voice which, when analysed, will inform clinicians about what is beneficial in the therapeutic process.  Please find on the links below copies of an adapted form of the SRS to distribute following each session with your clients.  Clients have been assured of confidentiality (they will return the questionnaire in a reply paid address and the inclusion of their name is optional) therefore you will not receive specific feedback about individual clients.  However, when data are analysed, results can be available for you to access from the ASOCHA website.  Any questions you may have can be addressed to me by email to sandra@johnhca.com.au

Sandra Tunley 

ASOCHA Research Officer

The reply paid PDF and the Questionnaire are downloaded as separate files, but MUST be copied onto a double sided, single sheet of A4 paper. Please contact Sandra for more information.