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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Paradigms and paradigm shifts

"Paradigm" on its own can have a number of meanings I think but the term…

Positive specific agreement

Same thing as the F-measure Try also Agreement measures F-measure Inter-rater agreement/reliability Cohen's kappa Chapters Not covered in the OMbook. Online resources My Rblog…

PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire – 9 items)

Created in 2001 and now a very dominant self-report questionnaire. One of the mandatory…

PHQ-8

The eight item version of the Patient Health Questionnaire. The PHQ-9 with a final…

Partial correlation

This is simply the correlation between two variables after their correlation with another variable is…

Partial autocorrelation function (PACF)

Go to autocorrelation for the background and detail but this autocorrelation for lags of more…

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

A "dimension reduction" method of rearranging multivariate data. It's been used for decades in…

Problem ratings

A term long used particularly by behavioural therapists but absolutely not limited to them. …

Projective tests

I would prefer "measures" to "tests" but "tests" is the prevalent term and that probably…

Patient/client-reported outcome measures (PROMs)

This is the dominant term for what I would prefer, in our realms, we called…

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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.