[From book: “Outcome Measures and Evaluation in Counselling and Psychotherapy“]
Headings
- ‘HARD’ VERSUS ‘SOFT’ MEASURES
- Biological measures and markers
- NOMOTHETIC VERSUS IDIOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTORS
- Box of key terms: idiographic/nomothetic
- GLOBAL, GENERAL/GENERIC AND SPECIFIC MEASURES
- WHO DOES THE MEASURING?
- Observer rating
- Trained researcher ratings
- Lay raters
- Professionals and therapists as raters
- Automated/computerised ratings
- Self-ratings
- Strengths of self-rating
- Limitations of self-rating – Conscious awareness
- Design effects in creating questionnaires
- Observer rating
- OTHER FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN THE DESIGN OF OUTCOME MEASURES
- Types of ratings
- Number of ratings
- Time frames
- How much data do we have from different viewpoints? Multiple raters
- Frames of reference – differences in interpretation
- Figure 2.1. Courtesy of Randall Munroe, see his licencing.
[Created 20/5/21, last updated (tweaks) 6/10/22.]
