This book provides different evaluation methods for examining the state of clinical governance in the psychotherapy and mental health sectors. It focuses on three important contributions to clinically effective practice: clinical audit, outcome monitoring and evidence-based practice.

'Clinical Effectiveness'; 'Clinical Governance'; 'Clinical Audit'; 'Clinical Guidelines': these are all vitally important to the UK government's quality agenda for the NHS; all are apparently about clinical practice and yet all lead to a fair amount of confusion for the average practitioner. Despite the often confusing wealth of literature on the subject, little, if any, refers specifically to psychological treatment services.