The Clinical Effectiveness Institute:
For Organiations
Strengthening Clinical Effectiveness Across Teams and Systems
The Clinical Effectiveness Institute partners with provider organizations, counties, CCBHCs, and behavioral-health systems to strengthen the clinical work that occurs across an organization: how clinicians assess, formulate, make decisions, use supervision, and evaluate whether psychotherapy is accomplishing its purpose.
CEI engagements may include organizational consultation, workforce development, supervisor development, clinical education, and quality-improvement work. Rather than introducing a proprietary treatment model, CEI works with organizations to strengthen the clinical reasoning and practice that support effective care across theoretical orientations, treatment modalities, and populations served.
Clinical Capacity Development
CEI works with organizations to strengthen the clinical capacities their clinicians and supervisors depend on: assessment, formulation, clinical reasoning, use of supervision, course correction, and the ability to recognize when clinical work is not accomplishing its purpose.
Quality & Practice Improvement
CEI extends existing quality-improvement efforts into the clinical processes that shape outcomes: how cases are understood, how clinical decisions are made, how supervision functions, how stalled work is recognized, and how practice changes in response to what is learned.
An Invitation to Clinical Leaders
The Clinical Effectiveness Institute is interested in hearing directly from people responsible for clinical work at the organizational or system level: about what they are seeing, where clinicians and supervisors are struggling, what problems keep recurring, and what pressures are shaping clinical practice.
These conversations are part of CEI’s ongoing inquiry into clinical effectiveness. These conversations help us identify areas of research and training development. A conversation does not need to begin with a training need, a proposed project, or a request for consultation. CEI is interested in understanding what is happening in the field, including the problems organizations have not yet found a satisfactory way to address.
Some conversations may lead to further work together. Others may simply contribute to a clearer understanding of the conditions under which clinicians and organizations are trying to provide effective care. Both are valuable to the development of the field and effective work with the populations our clinicians serve.
If you hold a clinical or behavioral-health leadership role, CEI welcomes the conversation.
What Happens After You Reach Out
A conversation with CEI begins with the problem as it is actually being experienced in your organization:
1. Tell us what you are seeing: Our conversation is exploratory. CEI first wants to understand what is happening, where it is showing up, who is affected, what has already been tried, and what remains difficult to make sense of.
2. We think together toward and clarify the problem: Sometimes what first appears to be a training need is actually a supervision problem, a clinical-reasoning problem, a workforce-development problem, a quality issue, or something else. CEI works to distinguish what kind of problem the organization is actually facing before deciding what kind of response would be useful.
3. Determine whether there is useful work to do together: If a clearer area of work emerges, CEI can propose a bounded next step. That might involve organizational consultation, focused inquiry, supervisor development, workforce development, quality-improvement work, or clinical education and training. Some conversations will lead to an engagement; others will simply contribute to CEI’s understanding of the field and the development of future training and research.
The Clinical Effectiveness Institute works with:
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Community mental health and behavioral-health organizations
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Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)
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County and regional behavioral-health systems
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Managed care and behavioral-health organizations
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Hospitals and healthcare systems
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Group practices and multidisciplinary clinical organizations
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Graduate, postgraduate, internship, and residency programs
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Professional associations and clinical training institutes
Areas of Organizational Work
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Organizational consultation — working with leaders to understand recurring clinical, supervisory, or organizational problems and determine what kind of response they require.
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Supervision and clinical leadership — strengthening the structures and practices through which clinicians’ thinking is developed, supported, and challenged.
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Clinical education and training — bringing CEI’s work in formulation, regulation, alliance, somatic information, clinical reasoning, and related areas into organizational settings.
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Focused clinical inquiry — examining a specific clinical question, pattern, or area of concern when an organization needs a clearer understanding before deciding what to change.
Begin a Conversation
The Clinical Effectiveness Institute welcomes conversations with leaders who are seeing something in clinical practice, supervision, workforce development, or quality improvement that deserves closer examination. CEI is interested in learning what leaders are seeing and a conversation does not require a defined project or training request.