measurement based care - psychosocial assessments

Aspira offers a comprehensive Measurement-Based Care (MBC) program using the CarePaths MBC platform to deliver secure, evidence-based psychosocial and customized assessments that accurately track the mental-health status over time, score symptom changes, and clearly show progress or decline.  Aspira’s MBC model brings accuracy, safety, and measurable improvement to every level of care.

Through automated alerts, our system immediately notifies assigned care teams, counselors, parents, or family members when a client is at risk for suicidality or experiencing an emotional crisis, enabling rapid intervention and preventing harm. 

By integrating routine measurement based care, this program significantly improves clinical outcomes, enhances early identification of emerging issues, increases engagement in services, and helps providers tailor treatment plans with real-time data. 

In addition, population-level data dashboard charts reveal the overall mental-health trends and needs of the entire populations, empowering administrators, providers, and stakeholders with actionable insights to strengthen prevention, support systems, and program effectiveness. 

 Measurement-Based Care (MBC) is an approach in mental health treatment that involves regularly tracking a patient's progress using evidence-based standardized psychological questionnaires. These questionnaires help both the patient and the clinician understand how symptoms are changing over time, facilitating informed discussions about the effectiveness of the treatment and any necessary adjustments. 

Virtual psychosocial assessments are evaluations conducted online to understand an individual's mental health and social well-being. When integrated with MBC, these virtual assessments allow for consistent monitoring of a patient's condition from the comfort of their home. Patients complete brief, validated self-report measures before treatment sessions, which clinicians review to track progress. This ongoing process enhances communication between patients and providers, ensuring that treatment decisions are data-driven and tailored to the patient's evolving needs. 

 Measurement-Based Care involves tracking client progress throughout treatment, using consistent Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS). It provides an avenue for clinicians and their clients to regularly check in with each other, reflect on objective symptom change data together and uncover insights or patterns that can inform treatment decisions. The uptake of MBC is growing rapidly, with it being viewed as a core component of evidence-based behavioral healthcare. National accrediting bodies like the Joint Commission are making a major push to drive its adoption.

It’s important to remember that Measurement-Based Care is a clinical process, not just simply the collection of PROMS. The process of incorporating data and insights into clinical discussions and decision making is where the real value lies.

Measurement-Based Care empowers people in care, providers, organizations, and health systems with objective client and program specific data and insights that they’ve never had before. The Result? Clients are more engaged in care, providers can make evidence-based clinical decisions, organizations can innovate and improve their services, and health systems can better serve everyone in their population.

 A therapeutic relationship is a professional alliance between a therapist and a client that is the foundation of successful mental health treatment. It's a safe and trusting environment that encourages clients to be open about their thoughts and experiences.  The therapeutic relationship's purpose is to help a person improve their life by helping them change their thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. It can also help correct prior maladaptive experiences by reintegrating emotions into mental processes.  

 We offer any individual access to our program to empower you in your care. We give clients visibility into their results so they can assess their own progress and actively engage in their care process.  

Our program is to help any provider type (physician, clinic, therapist, case manager, hospital, or other practitioner). We make Measurement-Based Care easy. Automated delivery, customizable assessments, and rich insights help to inform your clinical decision making, reduce client drop-out and improve outcomes. 

 Our program is for any organization type (schools, payers, health systems, employers, communities and more) to have access to more powerful data than ever before. Leverage clinical insights to assess program effectiveness, inform supervision, improve quality of care and demonstrate value to the entire population you serve.   

 Engage research participants and collect data easier than ever before. With automated, flexible assessment delivery and completion, you’ll have the tools your research team needs to generate insights, run any report at the click of a button, and export data with ease.   Monitor symptoms, functioning, quality of life, treatment satisfaction, therapeutic alliance-relationship, impact of medications and more.  

The Yale MBC Collaborative is dedicated to MBC implementation for systems, clinicians and clients and MBC advancement as an evidence-based practice via continued research. The Collaborative was formed by a group of psychologists with interests in clinical service delivery, research, program implementation, quality improvement, reducing healthcare disparities, and advancements in mental health care systems that will result in better outcomes for all. We believe that MBC is a crucial ingredient in achieving these goals.

Our psychological monitoring solution identifies psychological risk signals in people of concern using Measurement-Based Care (MBC). Participants complete brief, evidence-based psychological assessments (e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7, trauma/resilience items) by phone, email or computer. The MBC monitoring system detects adverse changes and triggers real-time alerts so authorized stakeholders so they can intervene early, typically routing first to the treating clinician/behavioral-health provider, and, per consent or court order, notifying probation officers, the court, and designated family members. 

Aspira does not provide supervision, surveillance, or law enforcement functions. Our MBC solution is limited to our MBC psychological monitoring and alert system only, with role-based access, audit trails, and minimum-necessary data sharing. Jurisdictions can use the model voluntarily or, where authorized, as a condition of release, probation/parole, or outpatient treatment. Alerts prompt timely outreach (well-being checks, appointment move-ups, safety planning) and, when an imminent danger threshold is reached, escalation to the jurisdiction’s existing crisis pathways. 

This focused MBC layer helps courts and care teams act during an emotional crisis that may pose a risk of harm to others, while preserving privacy, due process, and clear accountability for who sees what, and when.