Awards

• Commended for Psychiatry category of the 2011 BMA Medical Book Awards (Highly Commended) 2011 (UK)

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Author:   Graham Thornicroft ,  Michelle Tansella
Publisher:   RCPsych Publications
Imprint:   RCPsych Publications
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9781904671923

ISBN 10:   1904671926
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   01 September 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of tables, boxes and figures; List of contributors; Foreword David Goldberg; Foreword Robert E. Drake; Preface: an evolving perspective of mental health outcome measures; Part I. Methodological Issues: 1. Measures of outcomes that are valued by service users Thomas Kahir and Til Wykes; 2. Statistical methods for measuring outcomes Graham Dunn; 3. Assessment instruments in mental health: description and metric properties Luis Salvador-Carulla and Juan-Luis González-Caballero; 4. Using outcomes in routine clinical practice to support recovery Mike Slade, Lindsay Oades and Bernd Puschner; Part II. Domains of Outcome Measurement: 5. Global functioning scales Emese Csipke and Til Wykes; 6. Satisfaction with mental health services Mirella Ruggeri; 7. Measuring family and carer burden in severe mental illness: the instruments Bob van Wijngaarden and Aart H. Schene; 8. Measures of quality of life for persons with severe mental disorders Anthony F. Lehman and Antonio Lasalvia; 9. Measuring social disabilities in mental health and employment outcomes Durk Wiersma and Thomas Becker; 10. Measuring the costs of mental healthcare Paul McCrone and Scott Weich; 11. Assessing needs for mental healthcare Mike Slade, Sonia Johnson, Michael Phelan and Graham Thornicroft; 12. Measuring stigma and discrimination related to mental illness Elaine Brohan, Mike Slade, Sarah Clement and Graham Thornicroft; Part III. Symptom Severity Outcome Measures: 13. Top-down versus bottom-up measures of depression David Goldberg; 14. Symptom severity outcome measures for depression Tom Trauer and David J. Castle; 15. Outcome measures for people with personality disorders Paul Moran and Rohan Borschmann; 16. The Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry and the tradition of the Present State Examination John K. Wing and Traolach S. Brugha; Part IV. International Approaches to Outcome Assessment: 17. Psychiatric assessment instruments developed by the World Health Organization Norman Sartorius, Aleksander Janca, Shekhar Saxena and T. Bedirhan Üstün; 18. Measuring outcomes in mental health: implications for policy Rachel Jenkins, Graham Mellsop and Bruce Singh; 19. Outcome measures for the treatment of depression in primary care William E. Narrow and Farifteh F. Duffy; Index.

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This well-established book covers the ground in a way that I found most helpful. It's up-to-date and well-produced. - BMA Medical Book Awards 2011 Programme

This well-established book covers the ground in a way that I found most helpful. It's up-to-date and well-produced. - BMA Medical Book Awards 2011 Programme

Author Information

About the editors: Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London and Michele Tansella is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Verona, Italy.

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