Overview

The Handbook of Psychiatric Measures offers a concise summary of key evaluations that you can easily incorporate into your daily practice. The measures will enhance the quality of patient care assisting you, both in diagnosis and assessment of outcomes. Comprising a wide range of methods available for assessing persons with mental health problems, the Handbook contains more than 275 rating methods, from the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale to the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale. In this fully revised edition, more than 40 measures have been added both to the book and to the accompanying CD-ROM. The Handbook features: • Thoroughly examined and revised measures that provide the most relevant and timely information for clinicians. • New measures that empirically provide better patient evaluation • Updated costs, translations, and contact information for each measure This handy compendium includes both diagnostic tools and measures of symptoms, function and quality of life, medication side effects, and other clinically relevant parameters. It focuses on measures that can be most readily used in either clinical practice or research. Most of the measures are designed to improve the reliability and validity of patient assessment over what might be accomplished in a standard clinical interview. The measures also demonstrate that the use of formal measures can improve the collection, synthesis, and reporting of information as compared with the use of unstructured examinations. Seventeen disorder-specific chapters, organized in DSM-IV-TR order, include measures for: • Disorders of childhood and adolescence • Cognitive disorders • Sexual dysfunction • Eating disorders • Sleep disorders • Aggression and much more. The discussion of each measure includes goals, description, practical issues, psychometric properties, and clinical utility, followed by references and suggested readings. This revised edition includes updated measure descriptions, new measure variants and research, and newly selected measures particularly appropriate to the domain of discussion. As a clinical tool, this book • Describes how, when, and to what purpose measures are used • Points out practical issues to consider in choosing a measure for clinical use • Addresses limitations in the use of measures including ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic factors that influence their interpretation Use of this special resource is further enhanced by a CD-ROM containing the full text of more than 150 of these measures—an invaluable aid for reference and clinical decision-making.

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Author:   A. John Rush, Jr., MD ,  Michael B. First (New York State Psychiatric Institute) ,  Deborah Blacker (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Publisher:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Edition:   Second Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   2.595kg
ISBN:  

9781585622184

ISBN 10:   1585622184
Pages:   864
Publication Date:   05 February 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section I: Introduction to the Handbook. Organization and use of the handbook. Psychometric properties: concepts of reliability and validity. Considerations in choosing, using, and interpreting a measure for a particular clinical context. Cultural factors influencing the selection, use, and interpretation of psychiatric measures. Section II: General Measures (Nondisorder Specific). Diagnostic measures for adults. General psychiatric symptoms measures. Mental health status, functioning, and disabilities measures. General health status, functioning, and disabilities measures. Quality of life measures. Adverse effects measures. Patient perceptions of care measures. Stress and life events measures. Family and relational issues measures. Suicide risk measures. Section III: Measures Related To DSM-IV Diagnostic Categories. Child and adolescent measures for diagnosis and screening. Symptom-specific measures for disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence. Child and adolescent measures of functional status. Measures for delirium and the behavioral symptoms of cognitive disorders. Neuropsychiatric measures for cognitive disorders. Substance use disorder measures. Psychotic disorders measures. Mood disorders measures. Anxiety disorders measures. Somatoform and factitious disorders and malingering measures. Dissociative disorders measures. Measures of sexual dysfunction and disorders. Eating disorders measures. Sleep disorders measures. Impulse-control disorders measures. Personality disorders, personality traits, and defense mechanisms measures. Violence and aggression measures. Appendix A: DSM-IV-TR classification. Appendix B: list of measures included on the CD-ROM. Appendix C: index of measures. Appendix D: index of abbreviations for measures. General index.

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<p> It is an impressive reference work. -- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease , October 2008

It is an impressive reference work. -- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease , October 2008

It is an impressive reference work. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Author Information

A. John Rush Jr., M.D., is the Rosewood Corporation Chair in Biomedical Science and the Betty Jo Hay Distinguished Chair in Mental Health at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Michael B. First, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Research Psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York, New York. Deborah Blacker, M.D., Sc.D., is Assistant Vice Chair for Research; Director, Gerontology Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital East, Charlestown, Massachusetts; and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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