The Emotional Processing Scale (EPS) is currently only available for research purposes. It is not yet obtainable commercially or for use with individual patients or clients. Specimen copies are not available.

For those wishing to use the EPS in a research project, the Dorset Research & Development Support Unit (RDSU) can provide copies of the scale, instructions on administering and scoring the scale and possibly some analytical expertise and advice. The RDSU wishes to engage in collaborative research with other researchers or research departments and universities using the EPS. This would include post graduate research theses as well as research by established professionals and departments, which would normally be using moderately large numbers of participants.

The first step would be for the researcher to provide us with information about the research proposal, its status and the department/unit in which it will be conducted. This will probably lead to a phone call or email correspondence in which we can discuss requirements in more detail and the nature of any possible collaboration.

Generally, the RDSU wants to encourage more research on emotional processing and would value research collaboration with other departments, organisations and universities.

Using the emotional processing scale

At the moment the main description of the Emotional Processing Scale (EPS) is in a journal article 'Baker, R., Thomas, S., Thomas, P.W., & Owens, M. (2007). Development of an Emotional Processing Scale. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 62, 167-178'

The intention is to publish the scale through an established psychological test publishing company with outlets in the UK and the US. The scale is not currently available commercially, nor for individual use with patients or clients and no specimen copies are obtainable. It is, however, available for research projects.

'The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact'

T H Huxley
Collected Essays (1983-4)
Biogenesis and Abiogenesis

Dorset RDSU
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