1. Go to Clients
2. Select your Client
3. Under Past Results, find the completed assessment that you want to delete
4. Move your cursor to the right of the screen to find 4 icons, click on Edit Result
5. Click on Delete Assessment
6. Select Yes
Many psychologists wonder about the HOW of implementing routine assessments. See Dr Ben Buchanan and Dr Nathan Castle run through how they do it in the first session.
This inventory consists of 35 questions measuring four sub-scales of perfectionism:
– Concern over mistakes and doubts about actions
– Excessive concern with parents’ expectations and evaluation
– Excessively high personal standards
– Concern with “precision, order and organization”
Setting excessively high standards is the most prominent feature of perfectionism, accompanied by tendencies for overly critical evaluations of one’s own behavior, expressed in over concern for mistakes and uncertainty regarding actions and beliefs.
Some individuals take pride in their perfectionistic nature and such beliefs can be a key target for psychological intervention. This scale can be useful in highlighting that being highly perfectionist is in fact unhelpful. This test is appropriate for people 15 years and older and is especially appropriate for individuals with critical parents, anorexia, OCD traits or an anxiety disorder. Perfectionistic beliefs may be an important underlying cause of a range of psychopathologies.
The Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale was created by Dr. Randy Frost and colleagues in 1990 and originally measured six sub-scales. Subsequent evaluation using principal components analysis found that four sub-scales were more appropriate. Stober (1998) validated the scale using 243 university student participants with an average age of 26.3 years.
The validity of the scale has been widely established through convergence with other clinically significant problems, including anxiety in college students (Frost & Marten, 1990), insomnia (Lundh, Broman, Hetta, & Saboonchi, 1994), social phobia (Juster, Heimberg, Frost, Holt, Mattia, & Faccenda, 1996), obsessive-compulsive symptoms (Rheaume, Freeston, Dugas, Letarte, & Ladouceur, 1995) and anorexia nervosa (Bastiani, Rao, Weltzin, & Kaye, 1995). In fact, perfectionism may be the underlying trait in many of these problems.
Results consist of a Total Perfectionism score (total of subscales not including Organization) as well as four subscales, presented as raw scores and percentile ranks. The percentiles are based on the data from Stober’s (1998) sample of university students (mean age 26.3).
Higher percentiles indicate more problems while a percentile closer to 50 represents the average response. High scores on the Organization subscale do not contribute to Total Perfectionism and are not intrinsically problematic, but combined with high scores on the other factors may exacerbate dysfunction.
The four subscales are:
-Concern over Mistakes and Doubts about Actions
(Questions 9,10,13,14, 17,18,21,23,25,28,32,33,34)
– Parental Expectations and Criticism
(Questions 1,3,5,11,15,20,22,26,35)
– Personal Standards
(Questions 4,6,12,16,19,24,30)
– Organization
(Questions, 2,7,8,27,29,31)
NFrost, R. O., & Marten, P. A. (1990). Perfectionism and evaluative threat. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 14, 559-572.
Stober, J. (1998). The Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale: More perfect with four (instead of six) dimensions. Personality and Individual Differences, 24(4), 481-491.
Meet Dr Nathan Castle, our new Chief Science & Evaluation Officer
As the Chief Science and Evaluation Officer Dr Nathan Castle supports professionals and services to implement data-driven practices via NovoPsych’s comprehensive digital platform. Dr Castle is a Clinical Psychologist with expertise in Routine Outcome Measurement, Evaluation and Deliberate Practice. He has experience leading a data-driven Private Practice in East Geelong that evaluates client outcomes and provides feedback in real time.
Sometimes when you’re sending a client an assessment via email, you’ll want to modify the standard email text to better reflect how your practice works. Within NovoPsych you can save up to 5 email templates, using the below steps:
1. Go to Account
2. Select Account Details
3. Scroll down to find Email Templates
4. Click on Create Template
5. Fill in your Template Title, Email Subject and Message.
Note: # are available for name and word shortcuts. These shortcuts will be automatically populated when sending an email.
6. Click Save
To use the template go to the home screen, click Email Assessment, Select Client, Select Assessment(s), then click Customise Email. You can then Insert Email Template from the drop-down to access previously saved templates.
This webinar aims to reinvigorate your understanding of how we can use psychometric assessments to improve patient outcomes.
We will:
1) Consider why measuring client outcomes can help you and your clients
2) Define ways to enhance care by decreasing client drop-out and improve client engagement
3) Introduce an easy-to-use model for implementing outcome measures to collect practice-based evidence
Importantly, this training will focus on how to put these strategies in place in real-world settings. In this webinar the research is summarised and integrated into practical techniques delivered by two presenters with expertise in using outcome measures in their own private practices.
Date: 17th May 2021
Time: 5:30pm to 6:45pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time: AEST)
How: Zoom
Cost: Free. Please RSVP here
Connect via Zoom: https://novopsych.com.au/join-webinar
NovoPsych allows you to setup a reoccurring email to clients so they can receive an assessment weekly, monthly and so on. A client can unsubscribe themselves if they don’t want to receive them (via a link in the automated email), or you can cancel the schedule yourself.
If you want to cancel a recurring scheduled assessment that was made in error, or you do not need anymore:
1. Go to Clients
2. Select your Client
3. Under Scheduling, you will find all your ‘active’ schedules in progress
4. Click on the date
5. Click ‘delete schedule’
1. Go to Account
2. Select Account Details
3. Scroll down to Manage Account
4. Click on Payment Methods
5. Click on Edit Payment Method
6. Click Update and Done
The Obsessional Compulsive Inventory-Revised-Self Report (ChOCI-R-S) is a 32-item self-report measure assessing the presence and severity of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents aged 7-17 years.
This measure is completed by a child. There is an alternative parent-report version that can be used in conjunction with this scale (ChOCI-R-P). The scales is useful in the diagnosis of childhood OCD and to characterise the nature of obsessions and compulsions. It can also be used to track symptoms over time.
The ChOCI-R is of similar format to the Child Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS), as compulsions and obsessions are addressed separately, but is self-report rather than clinician rated.
When the scale is administered on two or more occasions scores are graphed over time. This can provide useful feedback in the context of treatment and information about which OCD symptom clusters have reduce or remained higher.
Uher, Heyman, Turner and Shafran (2008) evaluated the test with a clinical sample of 285 children and adolescents with OCD. The ChOCI-R has acceptable internal consistency, and the ChOCI-R impairment scales show convergent validity with the similarly-structured CY-BOCS. The measure also demonstrates divergent validity with a measure of general child psychopathology. The self-report version of the ChOCI-R yielded clearer distinctions between obsessions and compulsions than the parent-report version.
A raw score for each compulsion and obsession subscale is provided as output, along with raw scores for total impairment (range 0-48) and total symptoms (range 0-40).
Each subscale is computed as follows:
– Compulsion Symptom score: Sum of questions 1 to 10
– Compulsions Impairment score: Sum of questions 14 to 19
– Obsession Symptom score: Sum of questions 20 to 29
– Obsession Impairment score: Sum of questions 33 to 38
– Total symptom score: compulsion symptom score + obsession symptom score
– Total impairment score: compulsions severity score + obsession severity score
Higher total impairment scores indicate higher levels of severity/distress related to OCD symptoms, whilst higher total symptoms scores indicate greater complexity and pervasiveness of OCD symptoms.
Scores are also presented as percentiles based on responses for a sample of children referred to an OCD clinic (Uher et al., 2008). The percentiles are helpful for interpretation as they contextualises the respondents’ score in relation to patients with OCD. For example, a percentile of 50 is the average score for a child with OCD, and indicates typical (and clinically significant) symptoms.
Uher, R., Heyman, I., Turner, C. M., & Shafran, R. (2008). Self-, parent-report and interview measures of obsessive–compulsive disorder in children and adolescents. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22(6), 979-990. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.10.001
Uher, R., Heyman, I., Turner, C. M., & Shafran, R. (2008). Self-, parent-report and interview measures of obsessive–compulsive disorder in children and adolescents. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22(6), 979-990. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.10.001
