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The integration of the best available research with clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture and preferences.
What is Evidenced Based Practice?
When data can be organized into categories that are exclusive and exhaustive but the categories cannot be compared.
What is Interval Measurement?
The same instrument is given to your client at two different times.
What is Test Related Reliability?
Tests and methods used to gain information from a subject of study.
What is Behavioral Measures?
An experimental design where several behavioral items are assessed repeatedly before any variables are actually manipulated.
Research formats that permit uncontrolled program evaluation and controlled experiments with only one subject, one group, or one system
What is Single System Designs?
The highest form of measurement that meets all the rules of other forms of measure; it includes mutually exclusive categories, exhaustive categories, rank ordering, equal spacing between intervals, and a continuum of values.
What is Ratio Measurement?
The consistency of an instrument.
What is Reliability?
This measure enables a person to define every observed process in a defined category.
What is Observational Measure?
The types of single-subject designs.
What is B, AB, and ABA?
A precise, testable statement of what the researchers predict will be the outcome of the study.
What is Hypothesis?
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What is Nominal Measurement?
Measures how well one measure predicts an outcome for another measure.
What is Criterion-Related validity?
Brief standardized questionnaires that can be used to facilitate the clinical evaluation of the client and to monitor progress during intervention.
What is Rapid Assessment Instruments?
The act or fact or a means of interfering with the outcome or course especially of a condition or process (as to prevent harm or improve functioning)
What is Intervention?
A set of logically correlated explanatory hypotheses which are stable with a body of empirical facts and which might propose more empirical unions.
What is Theory?
Data that can be assigned to categories of numerical rank; it must be kept in mind that the intervals between the ranked categories may not be equal, for example, levels of education, degrees of coping, and levels of mobility.
What is Ordinal Measurement?
The trait of being founded on honesty, correctness, fact, or law.
What is Validity?
Three basic ways of managing behaviors.
What is frequency, duration and interval counts?
Narratives, Video Tapes, Audiotapes and New Computer Applications.
What is Methodologies for describing Interventions?
The process of finding general behavior patterns among the bits and pieces of specific situations in everyday life.
What is Conceptualization?
The lowest level of measurement, used when data can be organized into categories that are exclusive and exhaustive but the categories cannot be compared. Examples are gender, race, and marital status.
What is Nominal Measurement?
The ability of a measurement tool (e.g., a survey, test, etc) to actually measure the psychological concept being studied.
What is Construct Validity?
A research method of data collection that does not involve direct contact with the research participants.
What is Unobtrusive Measure?
Basic characteristics of client and client problem, of practitioner and agency, including any other practitioners and agencies involved in the intervention (e.g. referring agency, psychiatrist, nurse, teacher, parents).
What are Components of a fully specified intervention?