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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Between group(s) comparison

What it says! Actually, when you see it, it what is really being done…

Bonferroni correction

This is the simplest way to "correct" for the multiple tests problem. Details Read the multiple tests…

Binomial distribution

This probably doesn't come up directly all that often in the therapy/MH literature but it…

Bootstrap methods

A computer intensive statistical method mainly used to obtain robust estimates of confidence intervals around…

Boxplot (or box plot)

Sometimes also called a "box and whisker plot". This is a excellent way to…

Barplot / bar plot

See Histograms and barplots.

Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)

Perhaps the most famous and successful therapy self-report instrument ever. Started with the paper…

Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)

The BAI is a (Beck, A. T., Epstein, N., Brown, G., & Steer, R. A….

Bulimia Investigatory Test Edinburgh (BITE)

The BITE is a questionnaire which, as its name suggests, is designed to measure typical…

Between groups tests

The complement to paired, or within person tests. See Paired tests and Between group(s)…

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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.