Glossary C
Glossary C
Crisis intervention refers to program that helps people who are highly suicidal and refers them to mental-health professionals.
Crisis intervention is a skilled management of a psychological emergency.
Crisis interview is defined as an interview conducted for the following purposes: (a) defusing or problem solving through the crisis at hand; and (b) encouraging the individual to enter into a therapeutic relationship at the agency or elsewhere so that a longer term solution can be worked out.
Criss-cross or reverse directories are directories that allow various means of referencing information
Criterial attribute refers to an expression used by Bruner Bruner to describe the characteristics of objects, events, or experiences that define their membership in a category - in other words, that are essential to their being what they are.
Criterion may be defined as a measure of job performance, such as attendance, productivity, or a supervisor rating.
Criterion validity refers to the extent to which a test score is related to some measure of job performance. Criterion validity demonstrates that scores are related systematically to one or more outcome criteria, either now (concurrent validity ) or in the future (predictive validity).