This is the glossary for the book “Outcome measures and evaluation in counselling and psychotherapy” written by myself and Jo-anne Carlyle and available now from SAGE.
Just type in whatever you want to look up below and you should see pertinent entries if I have created them yet (150 now and climbing!)
The full list of entries follows, if what you want is not there and you think it should be, contact me and tell me and I will put it on the list of entries to be added!
- “Big data”
- “Hard” measures
- “Normal” distribution
- “Soft” measures
- Age
- Aggregation
- Audit, Clinical Audit
- Authenticity Scale (AS)
- Barplot / bar plot
- Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
- Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
- Between groups tests
- Bias
- Blinding
- Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ)
- Bootstrap methods
- Bootstrap, Bootstrapping
- Boxplot (or box plot)
- Bulimia Investigatory Test Edinburgh (BITE)
- Card sort methods
- Categorical/nominal data/scaling
- Causality & causal attribution
- Ceiling effect
- Cell and cell size
- Census
- Central location
- Change
- Clinical/non-clinical
- Cochrane (collaboration, library)
- Common factors
- Compass
- Computer intensive statistics/methods
- Confidentiality
- Confirmatory factor analysis
- Confounding
- Controlled trials
- Copyleft
- Copyright
- CORC: Child Outcomes Research Consortium
- CORE-10
- CORE-6D
- CORE-OM
- CORE: Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation
- Corrected item-total correlations (CITCs)
- Correlation
- Dataset and database
- Dependent variable
- Discrete measures/variables
- Distribution
- Distribution shape
- Double blind
- ECM (Embedded Change Measurement)
- Effectiveness
- Efficacy
- Efficiency
- Empirical research
- Estimate, estimation
- ESTs (Empirically Supported Treatments)
- Ethnicity
- Expectancy effects
- Face validity
- Factor analysis
- Floor and ceiling effects
- Gaussian (“Normal”) distribution
- Gender
- GHQ: General Health Questionnaire
- Glasgow Anxiety Scale
- Glasgow Depression Scale
- Goal attainment scaling
- GULP
- Heteroscedasticity
- Hierarchical linear models/modelling (HLM)
- Histograms and barplots
- Homoscedasticity
- Idiographic measure, Idiographic methods
- Independence of observations
- Independent variable
- Informed consent
- Inter-quartile range (IQR)
- Inter-rater agreement/reliability
- Interaction
- Internal vs. external analyses
- Interval scaling
- Invalidity
- Jackknife method
- Jittering
- Kendall correlation coefficient
- LD-CORE
- Maximum
- MCAR: Missing Completely At Random
- Mean (arithmetic mean, average)
- Measure
- Median
- Medical model
- MICE: Multiple Imputation by Chained Equations
- Minimum
- Missing values, “missingness”
- Modality
- Mode, modal value
- Nested data, nesting
- Nocebo effect
- Nomothetic measures, Nomothetic data
- Notched box plot
- Observation
- OQ (Outcome Questionnaire) system
- Ordinal scaling
- Outlier
- Overprinting
- Paired or within person tests
- PBE: Practice Based Evidence
- Person’s Relating to Others Questionnaire (PROQ)
- Placebo effect (and placebos)
- Population
- Practice Research Network (PRN)
- Predictor variable
- Principal/Chief investigator
- Proxy measure
- PSYCHLOPS (Psychological Outcome Profiles)
- Publication bias
- Quantiles
- Quartiles
- Random coefficients regression
- Randomisation
- Randomised controlled trial (RCT)
- Range
- Ratio scale/scaling
- Repertory grid
- ReQoL (Recovering Quality of Life)
- Research
- Sample size, n
- Sampling and sample frame
- Scatterplot/scattergram
- SCORE-15 (Systemic CORE)
- Self-report measure
- Sensitivity to change
- Skew (skew distribution)
- SMART principles
- Spearman correlation coefficient
- Spread
- Standard Deviation (SD)
- Statistic
- Stevens’ levels of measurement
- Strathclyde Inventory
- Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
- Subpopulation
- Subset/subgroup
- Uniform distribution
- User generated measures
- Validity
- Values based evidence (VBE)
- Variable
- Variance
- Violin plot (or violinplot)
- Visual analogue scale (VAS)
- Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS)
- YP-CORE
Page last updated 14/11/21, author CE, for the moment the page and contents of the glossary are copyright to me. That may change to a Creative Commons licence later when I am happier with the content.