What information do clinicians value for monitoring adolescent client progress and outcomes?

Despite the proliferation of outcomes measurement systems in managed care, there has been no systematic attempt to discover what information clinician s find useful. Five hundred thirty-nine mental health clinicians who serve adolescent clients responded to a mail survey. They rated the value of 29 c ategories of information describing adolescent clients. Results show how cl inician background anti experience influence the kind of information they p refer and how and when clinicians prefer to receive information. Lf outcome s measurement systems are ever to become useful tools, they must provide in formation that clinicians need and are willing to use.