Treatment Outcome Package (TOP) - Development and use in Naturalistic Settings

Developing and Delivering Practice-Based Evidence: A Guide for the Psychological Therapies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 155-174

  Kraus, David ^a   Castonguay, Louis G ^b  

^a Behavioral Health Laboratories   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral Health Labs (BHL); BHL and the TOP having wealth of developed applications; Discriminant and convergent validity; Outcome data of little use if there is no reference group for comparison; Principal components analysis (PCA) and correlated (Direct Oblimin) rotations; TOP (Treatment Outcome Package) popular outcome tool for a variety of provider groups; TOP and its supporting infrastructure designed to bring to forefront, beneficial aspects of outcomes management; TOP questions, high face validity for patients and psychotherapists; Treatment Outcome Package (TOP) development and use in naturalistic settings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886838931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470687994.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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