This term comes from medicine and usually applies to the use of one measure to predict another, usually life expectation\/mortality, that takes longer to measure. Typical examples are levels of tumour antigens in the blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arguably, all psychotherapy change\/outcome measures are only proxy measures: clients don’t come wanting to have their self-report questionnaire measure score improved at the end of therapy, they hope for longer term change, increased resilience and ability to cope etc. There’s a desperate shortage of even relatively short term, three months to a year say, outcome measures in our field and almost no work on longer term follow-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chapter 4, probably should have been in Chapter 10 too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This term comes from medicine and usually applies to the use of one measure to predict another, usually life expectation\/mortality, that takes longer to measure. Typical examples are levels of tumour antigens in the blood. Arguably, all psychotherapy change\/outcome measures are only proxy measures: clients don’t come wanting to have their self-report questionnaire measure score … Continue reading Proxy measure<\/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-2117","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":113,"total_views":"1005","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\/2117","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=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2117\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}