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Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-10.

CORE-10

What it measures
Global psychological distress for routine outcome monitoring: anxiety, depression, trauma, physical/functioning, and risk; short screening/outcome measure.
Length and format
10 items. 5-point frequency rating (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Multiple (carried within the CORE family); ~several langs incl. ES, IT, NO, NL, approx
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Barkham, M., Bewick, B., Mullin, T., et al. (2013). The CORE-10: A short measure of psychological distress for routine use in the psychological therapies. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 13(1), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2012.729069

https://doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2012.729069

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