A CORE Approach to Progress Monitoring and Feedback: Enhancing Evidence and Improving Practice

Psychotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 402-411

  Barkham, Michael ^a   Mellor Clark, John ^b   Stiles, William B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b CORE Information Management Systems Ltd ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CORE System; CORE OM; Feedback; Patient monitoring; Practice based evidence

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MONITORING; PUBLICATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84949660123     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: 19391536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pst0000030     Document Type: Article

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