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.

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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

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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.

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Criterion may be defined as a measure of job performance, such as attendance, productivity, or a supervisor rating.

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Criterion group refers to division of employees into groups based on high and low scores on a particular criterion.

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).

- Criterion validity evidence : Criterion validity evidence is defined as the evidence that a test score corresponds to an accurate measure of interest. Criterion is defined as measure of interest.