OM book glossary

This is the glossary, over 300 entries and climbing, for the book “Outcome measures and evaluation in counselling and psychotherapy” written by myself and Jo-anne Carlyle and available now from SAGE. Some glossary entries link to more detailed expansions of the topic in my Rblog and, at last, an increasing number now link with interactive online (“shiny”) apps.

You can see the alphabetical list of entries below which is a good place to browse, or you can use this search box.

Beware: the way the search orders the matches is to my mind bizarre so scroll down if what you typed isn’t first on the list, you may find something with exactly the title that is exactly the phrase you typed in to find is hidden down the list of suggestions.

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 (long!) list of entries to be added!

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Research fraud and research integrity

It's what it says and I think a recent movement not to separate the two,…

Researcher equipoise

What it says really: the idea that, as far as possible, researchers should hold a…

Rating scales

This is one of those entries that is so "it's what it says" that it…

Relational Depth Frequency Scale (RDFS)

A six item measure, with versions for therapist and client, that aims to rate the…

RDBMS: Relational Database Management System

Back in 1984 when I started in this field "RDBMS" I suspect didn't appear in…

Reliability

It's doing what you say you're going to do isn't it? Yes, and I…

Repeated measures (tests)

Usually seen as "repeated measure test". About measurements repeated within participants, e.g. change in…

Regression and linear regression

In psychoanalytic/psychodynamic theory when one slips into an chronologically, developmentally earlier way of functioning as…

Rectangular data

Exactly what it says: a dataset that has a rectangular format in which all the…

Re-identification

Is exactly what it says: finding some way, for at least one person, of identifying…

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Page last updated 19.v.24 to add the new BetterDocs “encyclopedia” listing of entries. Author CE, page and all glossary contents are copyright to me. That may change to a Creative Commons licence later when I am happier with the content.