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Psychotherapy outcome research: Methods for reporting variability and evaluating clinical significance

Jacobson, Neil S., Follette, William C., Revenstorf, Dirk·1984·Behavior Therapy

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Self-citation
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“Jacobson, Follette, and Revenstorf (1984) advocate moving still further, from practical significance to clinical significance, which they define as client improvement from a dysfunctional to functional range of activity.”
Background
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“This statistical methodology goes beyond the traditional group oriented analyses and provides an indication of the proportion of patients who made statistically reliable and clinically significant improvements (Jacobson et al. 1984; Turk et al. 1992).”
Method
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“To determine whether the magnitude of change was reliable, a reliable change index (RCI; Jacobson, Follette, & Revenstorf, 1984 ) was used to ensure that the degree of change exceeded the margin of measurement error.”
Method
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Empirically supported religious and spiritual therapies
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Age effects in parent training outcome.
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The efficacy of group psychotherapy for depression: A meta-analysis and review of the empirical research.
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A perspective on the history of process and outcome research in counseling psychology.
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Reliable and clinically significant change in the clinician-administered PTSD scale for DSM-5 and PTSD checklist for DSM-5 among male veterans
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Effect-Size Measures and Meta-Analytic Thinking in Counseling Psychology Research
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Relationship Between Therapeutic Climate and Treatment Outcome in Group-Based Sexual Offender Treatment Programs
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“The Reliability of Change Index (RC) has been described by Jacobson et al. (1984) as:”
MethodInfluential

Authors: Jacobson, N. S., Follette, W. C., & Revenstorf, D.
Affiliations: University of Washington (US)
University of Tübingen (DE)
Corresponding author: Jacobson, Neil S.
ORCID: Jacobson, Neil S.
Venue: Behavior Therapy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 1984-09
Volume: 15
Issue: 4
Pages: 336-352
ISSN: 0005-7894 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/s0005-7894(84)80002-7
OpenAlex: W2086791094
Cited by: 1,294
References: 0
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FWCI: 19.53
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Behavior Therapy (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
Keywords: psychotherapy outcome research, clinical significance, statistical significance, treatment response classification, statistical reliability, treatment outcome assessment

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