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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RCADS: Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale

The RCADS was originally a 47 item self-report scale for young people aged 8 to…

Rorschach "test"

Probably more correctly "Rorschach projective test". The use of a standard set of ten…

RCC: Reliable Change Criterion

Just another name and acronym for the RCI: Reliable Change Index. In general, I…

Rank correlation

Rank correlation coefficients are ways of looking at correlations between variables, i.e. the systematic relationship…

Right censored data

Censored data (see entry) is data where at least some values are not know accurately…

Range restriction

Also, fairly sensibly, known as "restriction of range". Covers what can happen when the…

Research fraud and research integrity

It's what it says and I think a recent movement not to separate the two,…

Researcher equipoise

What it says really: the idea that, as far as possible, researchers should hold a…

Rating scales

This is one of those entries that is so "it's what it says" that it…

Relational Depth Frequency Scale (RDFS)

A six item measure, with versions for therapist and client, that aims to rate the…

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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.