OM book glossary

This is the glossary, over 300 entries and climbing, for the book “Outcome measures and evaluation in counselling and psychotherapy” written by myself and Jo-anne Carlyle and available now from SAGE. Some glossary entries link to more detailed expansions of the topic in my Rblog and, at last, an increasing number now link with interactive online (“shiny”) apps.

You can see the alphabetical list of entries below which is a good place to browse, or you can use this search box.

Beware: the way the search orders the matches is to my mind bizarre so scroll down if what you typed isn’t first on the list, you may find something with exactly the title that is exactly the phrase you typed in to find is hidden down the list of suggestions.

If what you want is not there and you think it should be, contact me and tell me and I will put it on the (long!) list of entries to be added!

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Abstracteeism

A neologism created by Branca Sa Pires and leapt upon by me in one of…

Attenuation (by unreliability of measurement)

This is the very basic reality that if you have unreliable measures of things, and…

Accuracy

What it means in everyday language really. It's one of two parts of observational…

Average absolute deviation (AAD)

This is generally used to describe a family of measures of dispersion, i.e. of the…

Alpha

First letter of the Greek alphabet. OK, OK, I know you knew that! It…

Anderson-Darling test

A good test of distribution fit. (That's a graphic from my Rblog post about…

Alternative (alternate) hypothesis

The logical alternative to the null hypothesis in NHST (Null Hypothesis Significance Testing). At…

Attrition

Technical term used in research that involves repeated assessments including the whole field of repeated…

Anonymisation

This sounds obvious doesn't it and it also seems obvious that clients, and research participants,…

Authenticity Scale (AS)

A twelve item self-report therapy change scale created to reflect Carl Rogers' ideas of authenticity…

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Page last updated 19.v.24 to add the new BetterDocs “encyclopedia” listing of entries. Author CE, page and all glossary contents are copyright to me. That may change to a Creative Commons licence later when I am happier with the content.