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Enhancing Outcomes with Progress Monitoring

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The Globe & Mail published an article highlighting the use of routine progress monitoring to improve the effectiveness of psychotherapy. Given the time and money clients invest in psychotherapy, it is important that clients receive feedback-informed psychotherapy to enhance the effectiveness of treatment. Routine progress monitoring is a practice that clinicians implement at Eastwood Psychologists.  I will be sharing my experience with progress monitoring as a Psychologist (Supervised Practice) at Eastwood Psychologists and how it has benefited my work with clients.

What is Progress Monitoring?

Progress monitoring is a self-report survey completed routinely by a client to assess his or her functioning each week on various areas of concern (e.g. mood and anxiety symptoms). The questionnaire can be completed as a hard copy or electronically prior to each session. This survey is scored immediately and reviewed by the treating psychotherapist at the beginning of each session. Continue reading…

Boredom in the classroom

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A talk given at the Annual General Meeting for the Learning Disabilities Association of Peel Region, by Dr. Adrienne Eastwood, Psychologist

Good evening, and thank you for inviting me to speak at your AGM.

Tonight I would like to talk to you about some interesting research about the feeling of boredom, and how it impacts learning in the classroom. I hope my talk won’t bore you!

We have all experienced boredom at one point or another, and no one likes the feeling. Boredom is an unpleasant feeling that happens when we want something interesting to do, but for whatever reason, we can’t find it.When do you feel bored? Continue reading…

Encouraging success in all students

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A talk given at the Annual General Meeting for the Learning Disabilities Association of Peel Region, by Dr. Adrienne Eastwood, Psychologist

Good evening everyone, thank you for this opportunity to speak about a topic that I am quite passionate about – the potential for success that lies in each and every student.

As a psychologist, my job involves assessing children, diagnosing learning disabilities, and helping parents to understand what it all means for their child.  Understandably, parents of a child newly diagnosed with a learning disability are often worried and concerned – will my child succeed at school? Go on to post-secondary education? Be successful in life? Continue reading…

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