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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Standard error (SE)

Not to be confused with standard deviation (SD). Details Really understanding the difference between SD and SE…

SED: Sensory and quasi-sensory Experiences of the Deceased

The latest in a long series of names for these phenomena. This one has…

Social desirability

In our fields this refers to a bias that can affect self-report particularly on questionnaires…

Similarity coefficients/indices

What it says! The catch is that there are so many of them and…

Statistical power

This is a key idea within the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) paradigm. …

Society for Psychotherapy Research

International non-profit society for … psychotherapy research. In principle pantheoretical, multimodality, multiprofessional and international,…

Sobel's test

Very geeky stuff this. Sobel's test is a parametric null hypothesis test of the significance…

Survival analysis

This is going to be a small introduction to a big and important topic. …

Spearman-Brown formula

Also known as the Spearman-Brown "prediction" or even "correction" formula and apparently there's an argument…

Slope (in linear regression)

What it says! The gradient of a linear regression. See the entry Regression and…

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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.