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Mental Health Outcome Measures provides an authoritative review of measurement scales currently available to assess the outcomes of mental health service intervention. The excerpt of summaries by leading writers in the field assess the contributions of scale in areas including mental state examination, quality of life, patient satisfaction, needs assessments, measurement of service cost, global functioning scales, and social disability. These chapters provide a critical appraisal of how far such scales have been shown to be reliable and valid, and provide valuable insights in to their ease of use. This book will provide an invaluable reference manual for those who want to take research on mental health services, and for those who need to interpret this research for policy, planning, and clinical practice.
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1. Introduction.- 2. Statistical Methods for Measuring Outcomes.- 3. Global Function Scales.- 4. Satisfaction with Psychiatric Services.- 5. Instruments Measuring Family or Caregiver Burden in Severe Mental Illness.- 6. Measures of Quality of Life Among Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Disorders.- 7. Quality of Mental Health Service Care: The Forgotten Pathway from Process to Outcome.- 8. Measuring Social Disabilities in Mental Health.- 9. SCAN (Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry) and the PSE (Present State Examination) Tradition.- 10. Mental Health Care Costs: Paucity of Measurement.- 11. Uses and Limits of Randomised Controlled Trials in Mental Health Service Research.- 12. Psychiatric Assessment Instruments Developed by the World Health Organization.- 13. The Composite International Diagnostic Interview: An Instrument for Measuring Mental Health Outcome?.- 14. Assessment Instruments in Psychiatry: Description and Psychometric Properties.- 15. Multi-dimensional Assessment of Outcome: The Analysis of Conditional Independence as an Integrated Statistical Tool to Model the Relationships Between Variables.- 16. Assessing Needs for Mental Health Services.- 17. Measuring Outcomes in Mental Health: Implications for Policy.
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- EditoreSpringer Verlag
- Data di pubblicazione1996
- ISBN 10 3540610731
- ISBN 13 9783540610731
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine231
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. A shelfworn edition that is Nearly Fine ; In Mental Health Outcome Measures, Thornicroft, Graham, and Tansella (eds.) present a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for researchers, clinicians, and policymakers interested in assessing mental health outcomes. The book provides a framework for evaluating mental health interventions and provides overviews of the most widely used measures, as well as new measures being developed. The editors have compiled a rich and varied mix of chapters, including chapters on mental health outcomes assessment, biomarkers and data collection, mental health diagnostics, mental health care quality, mental health services utilization, and beyond. Mental Health Outcome Measures is an essential resource for researchers and clinicians who want to understand and improve the mental health outcomes of their patients and clients.; 8vo; 231 pages. Codice articolo 56963
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