>
> I would be interested to hear from anybody who is using or
> thinking of using the CORE Outcome Measure as designed
> by the Psychological Therapies Research Centre at the University of
> Leeds. I would be interested to know what has been people`s
> experience of using the measure, and how clients have responded to
> its introduction
>
> I work in a University Counselling Service, and am searching for
> an appropriate and user friendly measure of evaluating
> clients` experience of counselling. Is the Core Outcome Measure
> suitable, or is another measure recommended ?
>
OOOH! Developed by a group consisting of Michael Barkham (Leeds),
Myself (London), Frank Margison and Graeme McGrath (Manchester) and
Derek Milne (Newcastle) actually though the research support work
from Janice Connell is based in Leeds. I don't want the work of we
non-Leeds people lost on this!
So you can see I'm biased but I can speak to the issue. The CORE is
a 34 item self-report measure which attempts to be user friendly
(reading age nearer the general population than that of psych
researchers -- perhaps not an issue in student counselling?!), as
near pan-theoretical as this multi-theoretical bunch of us (and too
many others who have helped to be individually named here) can make
it, and quick and well supported.
Above all it is copyright (held by the Mental Health Foundation who
have funded the work to date) but FREE TO REPRODUCE and, currently
for free too, Leeds will supply you with copies of the measure and
do the computer scanning and return the results, individual and
group digested, to you provided you are willing to join in (and meet
our criteria, which are not severe!) a multicentre study to develop
extensive psychometric data and referential distributions for
different client populations.
A draft manual for it is available from Leeds (contact Janice on
janicec@psychology.leeds.ac.uk) which contains the reassuring pilot
data from clinical and non-clinical samples and more information
about the measure.
I think it should be very acceptable to a student counselling
service's clientele and believe that the results would be informative
to the service if it were given before and during/after therapy.
There are two parallel short forms designed for use where people
might want to use something every session or at some other fairly
frequent interval where even two sides of A4 is too much.
Hope this helps. I or Janice would, I am sure, be willing to handle
any questions people may have (oops, just realised, Janice is away
for another three weeks I think, come to me in the first instance!)
Best wishes all,
Chris
Chris Evans, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy,
Locum Consultant to the
Prudence Skynner Family Therapy Clinic,
St. George's Hospital Medical School, London University
C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk http://psyctc.sghms.ac.uk/
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