Clinical Psyc-Chapter 12 Definitions Flashcards
benchmarking strategy
the use of data from empirical studies to provide a comparison against which the effectiveness of clinical services can be gauged
clinical practice guidelines
a summary of scientific research, dealing with the diagnosis, assessment, and/or treatment of a disorder, designed to provide guidance to clinicians providing services to patients with the disorder
effect size
a standardized metric, typically expressed in standard deviation units or correlations, that allows the results of research studies to be combined and analyzed.
empirically supported treatment
a psychotherapy that has been found, in a series of randomized controlled trials or single-participant designs, to be efficacious in the treatment of a specific condition
meta-analysis
a set of statistical procedures for quantitatively summarizing the results of a research domain
open trial
a type of initial, exploratory treatment study in which no control group is used and, typically, few participant exclusion criteria are applied
randomized controlled trial
an experiment in which research participants are randomly assigned to one of two or more treatment conditions
