Individualized patient-progress systems: Why we need to move towards a personalized evaluation of psychological treatments

Canadian Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 115-121

  Sales, Célia M D ^a,b   Alves, Paula C G ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE AUTÓNOMA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Hybrid outcome; Idiographic assessment; Individualized patient progress; IPPS; Literature review; Metric frequency similarity; MF calculator; Personalized evaluation; Routine evaluation; Tracking systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880129796     PISSN: 07085591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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