Dr Tony Weston has a commitment to ongoing research as part of his professional practice and through his participation in the International Project on the Effectiveness of Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy Training (IPEPPT). All research is conducted within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Ethical Guidelines for Researching Counselling and Psychotherapy. Tony’s research was referred to in Bergin and Garfield’s Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behaviour Change Sixth Edition.
You will normally be asked to complete one or more short questionnaires before, during and after your counselling, completion of these forms is voluntary. If you decide not to complete the forms this will not affect your therapy in any way, nor will anything you put on the questionnaire. Your confidentiality is of the utmost importance to us and you will not be identified in anything we write or publish about our research.
Please note that there are no guarantees in therapy and ‘past performance is no guide to the future’.
Recent outcomes, to April 2024, for clients seen by Dr Tony Weston, include:
Notes: a) Number of clients in each group. b) Scores on each measure at start of counselling. c) Scores on each measure at the end of counselling or at most recent measure, if still ongoing. d) Effect Size. e) probability value. f) Depression measured using Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition (BDI-II), scores of 14 and above are defined as clinical scores. g) Severe depression defined as scores of 29 and above using the BDI-II. h) Anxiety measured using Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), scores of 8 and above are defined as clinical scores. i) Severe anxiety defined as scores of 26 and above using the BAI. j) Panic subscale of BAI, scores of 3 and above are defined as clinical scores. k) Distress measured using Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE-OM), scores of 10 and above are defined as clinical scores. l) Trauma subscale of CORE-OM, scores of 4 and above are defined as clinical scores. m) Risk to self subscale of CORE-OM, scores of 1 and above are defined as clinical scores. n) Risk to others subscale of CORE-OM, scores of 1 and above are defined as clinical scores. o) Couple relationships measured using the Couple Satisfaction Index (CSI-16). p) Avoidant measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire Avoidant subscale (PBQ-AV), scores of 18.4 and above are defined as clinical. q) Dependent measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire Dependent subscale (PBQ-DE), scores of 20.0 and above are defined as clinical. r) Passive-Aggressive measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire Passive-Aggressive subscale (PBQ-PA), scores of 24.0 and above are defined as clinical. s) Obsessive-Compulsive measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire Obsessive-Compulsive subscale (PBQ-OC), scores of 21.6 and above are defined as clinical. t) Anti-Social measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire Anti-Social subscale (PBQ-AS), scores of 9.7 and above are defined as clinical. u) Narcissistic measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire Narcissistic subscale (PBQ-NA), scores of 12.7 and above are defined as clinical. v) Histrionic measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire Histrionic subscale (PBQ-HI), scores of 19.0 and above are defined as clinical. w) Schizoid measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire Schizoid subscale (PBQ-SC), scores of 19.0 and above are defined as clinical. x) Paranoid measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire Paranoid subscale (PBQ-PN), scores of 14.4 and above are defined as clinical. y) Borderline measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire Borderline subscale (PBQ-BL), scores of 16.4 and above are defined as clinical.