OM book glossary

This is the glossary, over 350 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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Markov/Markovian process

A time series concept, pretty technical but does come up in our fields. Details A Markov, or…

Multidimensional scaling (MDS)

A method, similar to exploratory factor analysis, that takes a dataset of values for a…

Missing at Random (MAR)

To me this is a truly terrible name. It describes the situation in which…

Marginalised client groups

Exactly what it says really. Why put it here when it's so obvious that it…

Mixture models

This is a pretty cutting edge bit if statistics but the idea is very important…

Mean Squared Error (MSE)

What it says really: the mean of the squared deviation of a set of values…

MAPI trust

"Mapi Research Trust is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving patients’ quality of life by…

Monotonic relationship

No, not a boring relationship, hm, well, sort of. It's a relationship between two…

Methodology

I used to think this was a synonym for, or a rather pompous term for,…

McDonald's Omega

Often contrasted with Cronbach's coefficient alpha, thus creating a lovely "alpha and omega" of internal…

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Creation date lost, updated 19.v.24 to add the new BetterDocs “encyclopedia” listing of entries, tweaks 22.i.25. 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.