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Original paper

Clinical significance: A statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research.

Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 12 - 19
Published: Jan 1, 1991
Abstract
In 1984, Jacobson, Follette, and Revenstorf defined clinically significant change as the extent to which therapy moves someone outside the range of the dysfunctional population or within the range of the functional population. In the present article, ways of operationalizing this definition are described, and examples are used to show how clients can be categorized on the basis of this definition. A reliable change index (RC) is also proposed to...
Paper Details
Title
Clinical significance: A statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research.
Published Date
Jan 1, 1991
Volume
59
Issue
1
Pages
12 - 19
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