title: Values in dynamic psychotherapy: measurement and social choice.
abstract: This review advocates more attention to the properties of measures of change in psychotherapy research. It anticipates the development of cardinal measures of different attributes, which can be combined by methods of proven validity, and placed on scales of value or utility.
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008603:Mental Health; D011379:Prognosis; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief; D012107:Research Design; D012306:Risk; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D013223:Statistics as Topic