This commentary briefly surveys some of the practical and methodological difficulties related to residential treatment outcome research, both in terms of earlier criticisms of outcome research and of more recent commentaries noting the increased importance of finding issues and fiscal accountability. The paper concludes with a dcscriptive and comparative survey listing of selected possible outcome assessment instruments, including: (1) clinical interview schedules, (2) objective rating scales (including global fhnctioning, behavioral, and specialized focus scales), (3) objective personality inventories, and (4) projective tests.
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D. Patrick Zimmerman (1996) studied this question.
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