Routine outcome monitoring: Coming of age--With the usual developmental challenges.

The articles in this series present a variety of systems that involve routine outcome monitoring and the provision of feedback to therapists and/or patients with the goal of improving the quality of mental health care. Sufficient evidence exists for the adopting 1 of these systems (or 1 that was not discussed in this series); nevertheless, a number of challenges exist. Issues related to identifying the efficacious components, implementation, utilization, scientific inquiry, and the next generation are discussed. (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).