The translation of the CORE-OM has been completed and a reassuring initial psychometric exploration involving both clinical and non-clinical samples was done by Dr. Stefanie Sproll for her diploma at the Sigmund Freud Universität in Vienna supervised by Dr. Diana Braakmann. Dr. Sproll has moved on to full time clinical work and other commitments so we planned for a paper based on her work will be submitted for publication whenever I could find enough time to write it but that never got high enough up my terrifying todo list.
However, that has since been overtaken and suddenly there are two new papers about the CORE-OM in German which I must read and digest:
- Aranyi, G., Humer, E., Unterrainer, H.-F., Kuska, M., Winter, L., & Zeldovich, M. (2025). The German version of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation—Outcome Measure (CORE-OM): Factorial validity, internal consistency, and gender differences in a large outpatient sample. Psychotherapy Research, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2025.2485154 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10503307.2025.2485154)
- Fuchshuber, J., Zeldovich, M., Aranyi, G., Winter, L., Kuska, M., Dumont, D., Humer, E., & Unterrainer, H. (2025). Uncovering the Internal Structure of the German Version of the CORE‐OM: A Network Analysis. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 32(2), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.70063 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpp.70063)
YP-CORE in German
We now have a completed translation of the YP-CORE into German. This is thanks to a lot of hard and very careful work by Maren Rogaski working towards her PhD supervised by Prof. Dr. Elena von Wirth, both in Trier, Germany. Maren has worked closely with me to keep the process to the CORE YP-CORE translation procedure and ensure coverage of likely dialect variation in German and to get strong involvement from young german speakers. Being part of the focus/harmonisation group (myself online) was a real pleasure for all that my German is nearly non-existent as I could see how everyone was getting involved in the issues from the forward translations and having some fun.
Maren and colleagues are now collecting data using the translation from help-seeking clients attending services and from non-help-seeking adolescents at schools in various German speaking locations. (Both the translation work and this survey are, of course, approved by the Trier ethics committee.) We hope to publish a single paper about the learning from the translation process and the initial psychometric exploration from those accumulating datasets as soon as we reach the specified sample sizes.
In the light of the ongoing work and to ensure that Maren and her colleagues will have the first descriptive evaluation of the measure we are making the German YP-CORE is available but for now I am imposing an additional restriction on the usual CST Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. This restriction is that users agree not to publish or submit any research for publication using the German YP-CORE until the paper is accepted or June 2026, whichever comes first. Anyone wishing to use the measure do please contact me but let me know your plans and to confirm that you accept those conditions. I will share the contact details with Maren and the Trier team and I know they are interested to see if some network of users of the German YP-CORE might evolve.
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- This is the zip file of all the German PDFs (855Kb)
- Unisex versions
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