Glossary

Showing 12 terms.

Random assignment Textbook concept

Allocating participants to conditions by chance so that pre-existing differences are evenly distributed.

See: Research design and validity

Rapport Textbook concept

A trusting, comfortable working relationship between clinician and client.

See: Clinical interviewing and the mental status examination

Reactivity Textbook concept

Change in behaviour caused by the awareness of being observed or measured.

See: Behavioural observation, self-monitoring and checklists

Referral question Original elaboration

The specific question an assessment is asked to answer.

See: Clinical inference, judgement and assessment reports

Reflection (of feeling) Textbook concept

An interviewing skill that mirrors the emotion behind a client's words.

See: Clinical interviewing and the mental status examination

Reframing Textbook concept

Offering a new perspective on a problem that changes its meaning and opens new responses.

See: The family systems approach

Regression to the mean Textbook concept

The tendency for extreme scores to move toward the average on retesting.

See: Research design and validity

Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) Indian context · verify

The statutory body under the RCI Act, 1992, that maintains the Central Rehabilitation Register in which clinical psychologists in India must be registered.

See: Becoming a clinical psychologist, Ethical principles and standards, What is clinical psychology?

Reliability Textbook concept

The consistency of a measurement across time, items, forms or raters.

See: Psychometrics: reliability, validity and screening accuracy

Reliable change index Contemporary update

A statistic indicating whether an individual's change exceeds what measurement error alone would produce (Jacobson & Truax, 1991).

See: Treatment outcome research and evidence appraisal

Resilience Contemporary update

The capacity to adapt well in the face of adversity.

See: Diathesis–stress and related explanatory models

Rorschach Textbook concept

A projective technique in which people describe what they see in inkblots.

See: Personality assessment: objective and projective methods