Exploring aspects of good practice involved in the measurement of mental health mechanisms
In this section we provide information on the importance of measurement in providing targeted, effective, and accessible treatments for children and young people.
We also define what we mean by a measure and summarise key concepts important to the quality of a measure (e.g., reliability and validity).
In this section, you will find information on what a mechanism is, and why mechanisms are important.
You will also find information on the transdiagnostic approach to understanding mental health problems.
We have built an open-access library of measures of psychological mechanisms, particularly those that can be used for children and young people. We provide information about each measure’s quality, scoring, and access.
You can also sign up and add a measure to our ever-growing library. This could be new measure developed by you or others, or an existing measure you think others would find useful.