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!

G

Gender categories (in quantitative research)

For so many decades this was binary: male and female. For an increasingly well…

Generalisability

Crucial idea, first letter in our GULP acronym. Means what the word says: are…

Gender

Gender is gender: male or female! Details Of course it's not! First of all…

Gaussian ("Normal") distribution

This is the famous "bell shaped curve" which maps the probability of a score as…

Goal attainment scaling

GAS is a methodology for valuing and systematically identifying the specific goals of an individual…

GULP

Generalisability, Usability, Linguistics (and cultural Location) and Psychometrics. Our acronym to organise thinking about outcome/change…

GHQ: General Health Questionnaire

There are a suite of self-report mental health questionnaires that started with the GHQ-60 which…

Glasgow Anxiety Scale

In full the Glasgow Anxiety Scale for people with an intellectual disability (Mindham, J., &…

Glasgow Depression Scale

In full, the Glasgow Depression Scale for people with a learning disability (Cuthill, F. M.,…


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.