What is a scale?
This is the "backbone of practice evaluation"
What is a single-study design?
If a client said she hopes to be a millionaire in 20 years, she would be expressing this kind of goal
What is an ultimate goal?
An anxiety scale score is an example of this
If you were counting in a specific sequence, you might use this sort of measurement
What is "ordinal"?
What are indicators?
If a client is experiencing an acute mental health crisis, we might measure an intervention's effectiveness using this kind of SSD.
What is BAB (intervention, baseline, intervention)?
These kind of goals are usually described in measurable terms and involve short-term "benchmarks."
What are intermediate goals?
Merriam-Webster would be the ideal place to search for this kind of definition
What is a conceptual definition?
This level of might be expressed in 3, 5, 7, 9, etc.
What is interval measurement?
What is a checklist?
This letter is also used to represent a client's baseline in an SSD.
What is A?
This accomplishment might be described as a smaller goal that can be achieved en route to the intermediate goal.
What is an objective?
A definition gathered from a Likert scale would likely be described as this
This kind of measurement level involves a qualitative (descriptive) distinction.
What is nominal?
This is the process of breaking down "big" presenting problems into manageable "smaller" problems.
An ABC single-study design would involve this many interventions.
What is two?
The "M" in SMART goals stands for this
What is "measurable"?
What is a conceptual definition?
An example of this level of measurement would be "the amount of time spent caring for an elderly parent or the amount of time spent with a child or spouse." (Clue: in math, this word might be expressed in 2:1)
What is ratio?
Just like when making a decision on what is most important to accomplish on a daily checklist, be sure to do this when determining client problem targets.
What is prioritization?
Even if an intervention seems to be working, it is important to allow time for this (as appropriate) before determining causality.
What is repetition?
The "S" in SMART goals stands for this
What is "specific"?
If we wanted a more precise definition, we would likely have to do this, or the process of redefining and making more precising terms?
What is operationalize?
This is how many levels of measurement are mentioned in our textbook
What is four?