{"id":1995,"date":"2021-07-27T11:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T10:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1995"},"modified":"2024-11-21T22:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:09:47","password":"","slug":"compass","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/compass\/","title":{"rendered":"Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The compass in question is an outcome\/change management system that emerged, independently but at about the same time as CORE and the OQ system.  It&#8217;s not clear to me in 2021 whether it has survived and if so, in what form and name.  There&#8217;s a nice review of the book that announced the system (Jones, A. (1999). <em>TreatmentOutcomes in Psychotherapy and Psychiatric Interventions<\/em> Len Sperry, Peter L. Brill, Kenneth I. Howardand Grant R. Grissom. New York: Brunner\/Mazel, 1996. pp. 236. \u00a323.50 (paperback). <em>Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy<\/em>, <em>27<\/em>(2), 195\u2013197. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S1352465899210740\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S1352465899210740<\/a>).  The review is by Alan Jones: Jones, A. (1999). <em>TreatmentOutcomes in Psychotherapy and Psychiatric Interventions<\/em> Len Sperry, Peter L. Brill, Kenneth I. Howardand Grant R. Grissom. New York: Brunner\/Mazel, 1996. pp. 236. \u00a323.50 (paperback). <em>Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy<\/em>, <em>27<\/em>(2), 195\u2013197. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S1352465899210740\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S1352465899210740<\/a>.  I particularly like his comment:<br><em>By this stage, I would suspect that most readers who work in such settings would be experiencing very mixed emotions. One emotion might be that of wishing that such a comprehensive and well-developed system was in place in our own services, to avoid the tedious business of reinventing the wheel and devising new outcome measures with every new audit initiative; another might be a certain amount of unease about how one\u2019s performance might stand up against the therapist norms that the COMPASS system incorporates!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Try also &#8230;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/core-clinical-outcomes-in-routine-evaluation\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"1991\">CORE system<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/oq-outcome-questionnaire-system\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"1998\">OQ system<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Created 27\/7\/21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The compass in question is an outcome\/change management system that emerged, independently but at about the same time as CORE and the OQ system. It&#8217;s not clear to me in 2021 whether it has survived and if so, in what form and name. There&#8217;s a nice review of the book that announced the system (Jones, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/compass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Compass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[18],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-1995","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":225,"total_views":"1037","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"All OM book glossary entries","term_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary\/non-knowledgebase\/om-book\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4515,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1995\/revisions\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}