The Psychometric Challenges of Implementing Wellbeing Assessment Into Clinical Research and Practice: A Commentary on "Assessing Mental Wellbeing Using the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling"

Iasiello et al. (2022) offered a useful meta-analytic summary of the construct validity evidence for the internal structure of the Mental Health Continuum–Short Form (MHC-SF), with the aim of encouraging the assessment of “wellbeing in clinical practice to demonstrate clinically relevant outcomes that may contribute to clinical recovery or relapse prevention” (pp. 4–5). We fully support this aim. In fact, we have recently incorporated the MHC-SF into our routine outcome monitoring at a community based mental health treatment clinic. As Iasiello et al. (2022) noted, clinical assessment and treatment effectiveness have focused on “dysfunction and distress” (p. 3), and we think that use of the MHC-SF can help reorient practitioners toward addressing symptom reduction and improved wellbeing © 2022 American Psychological Association