CORE Research & Development Services

CORE IMS have many years of expertise in the field of counselling and psychology, with particular interests in measurement design, benchmarking and evaluation, and we may well be just the team you need to support you with your research and development project.

In recent years we have:

• Helped design new questionnaires for organisations including the National Children's Bureau; Relate; and the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists
• Supported the development and deployment of new CORE questionnaires including YP-CORE for young people and CORE-LD for clients with learning disabilities
• Led the development and publication of national benchmarking studies including NHS Primary Care, Higher Education and Employee Assistance
• Provided training and analytic support to NHS Trusts independently deploying CORE System tools in local software (under license from the CORE System Trust) including The Priory Group and SLaM
• Worked with Portugese family therapists and university academics in Lisbon to adapt CORE Net to include personalised (idiographic) questionnaires as qualitative complements to a range of psychometric measures
• Worked with The University of Tromso in Norway to adapt CORE Net as a national standard for Clinical Psychology training
• Seamlessly integrated adapted versions of CORE Net software into existing patient management systems
• Co-ordinated Dutch and Danish translations of CORE Net software for national deployment
• Acted as members of consultation committees for the IAPT New Technology Group and The Royal College of Psychiatrists for the National Audit of Psychological Therapies

If you'd like to talk to us about our R&D Consultancy services please contact us and we will be happy to help you