Chapter 6. Planning an outcomes exploration: design and be SMART

[From book: “Outcome Measures and Evaluation in Counselling and Psychotherapy“]

Headings

• WHAT DO YOU WANT TO TELL AND TO WHOM?
• FIT YOUR DESIGN TO YOUR AUDIENCE
  • What outcome or change matters to your clients?
  • What outcome or change matters to you the therapist (and why)?
  • What outcome or change matters to your external audience?
  • Audience and power relationships
  • What data analyses are persuasive to your audience?
• GOOD DESIGN
  • SMART design
    • Sample size and designs: pre-post designs
    • Sessional data
    • Numbers of clients, of sessions and of therapy endings
    • Quantitative, qualitative and mixed data and methods
    • Design and issues of confidentiality and ethics
• WHEN NOT TO MEASURE!
• MAKING THE BEST OF IMPOSED OMS

[Created 20/5/21, last updated (tweaks) 6/10/22.]