{"id":2396,"date":"2021-11-04T19:25:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T19:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2396"},"modified":"2021-11-04T19:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T19:25:25","password":"","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/change\/","title":{"rendered":"Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>In Counselling and Psychotherapy, change tends to refer to the improvement or deterioration in the client\u2019s experience, for example, of symptoms, mood, well-being, behaviour, perception, etc.  It&#8217;s important to be careful to distinguish change from &#8220;outcome&#8221; and to understand that in most therapies change is not just unidimensional, either across multiple clients, or for any one individual client.  The field of &#8220;outcome measurement does tend to oversimplify these issues.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Try also<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Response shift<br>Test-retest artefact<br>Qualitative change<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>1, 2, 3, 4 and 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Counselling and Psychotherapy, change tends to refer to the improvement or deterioration in the client\u2019s experience, for example, of symptoms, mood, well-being, behaviour, perception, etc. It&#8217;s important to be careful to distinguish change from &#8220;outcome&#8221; and to understand that in most therapies change is not just unidimensional, either across multiple clients, or for any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Change<\/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-2396","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":78,"total_views":"1081","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\/2396","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=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2396\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}