Communimetrics

John S. Lyons, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry & Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University where he has served on the faculty for more than two decades. Dr. Lyons has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and five books including, "The Measurement and Management of Clinical Outcomes in Mental Health", "Redressing the Emperor: Improving our children's public mental health system", and "Strategies in Behavioral Healthcare: Total Clinical Outcomes Management". He has developed the communimetric theory of measurement and worked to design and implement this measurement strategy in human services applications in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asian, and Africa. http://www.clinpsych.northwestern.edu/faculty/full-time.htm

• Measurement in Human Service Enterprises.- Measurement as Communication.- Designing a Communimetric Measure.- Defining a “Good” Communimetric Measurement Tool.- The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths.- The Intermed.- The Entrepreneurial League System Assessment.- The Future of Measurement in Human Services Settings.

From the reviews: "Communimetrics: A Communication Theory of Measurement in Human Service Settings is a text describing the historical aspects of communimetrics as well as its current state, application, and supporting data. It is the first book-length discussion on communimetrics and ... sets a comparative standard for all future writing on the topic. ... I would recommend this text for anyone primarily interested in psychological measurement. Those interested in finding ways to categorize complex human behaviors will also find this text interesting." (James J. Jakubow, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 55 (3), January, 2010)