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!

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Triple/treble blind

An interesting extension of the double blind methodology. In double blind trials the participants…

Test-retest effect/artefact/artifact

I think we should really say "test-retest effect" and I often put scare quotes around…

Thought experiment (Gedankenexperimenten)

Exactly what it says! Some sort of experiment, i.e. an intervention with observed consequences, is…

Test-retest reliability

This is one of the fundamental ways of exploring the reliability of a measure. …

Tidyverse

This is really just amusement but largely switching the way I use R from "base/standard…

t-scores

I probably last saw this in the last century but I'll put it in anyway! Details Essentially…

Transforming data/variable(s)

Technically this could be any transforming of a variable or multiple variables so it could…

The "third sector"

Term much used in the UK (and elsewhere?) to denote charities and charity funded work….

Ties

Things some people wear round their necks. Hm, no, not those. This refers…

Tests of fit to a distribution

There are a number of situations in which we might want to test the fit…

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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.