Mental health outcome measures /

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 examinati...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Thornicroft, Graham, Tansella, Michele
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1996]
Subjects:	Mental health services > Research > Methodology. Psychiatry > Research > Methodology. Mental Health Services. Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) Services de santé mentale. Évaluation résultats et méthodes (soins) Psychische Gesundheit. Psychometrie. Aufsatzsammlung. Psychische Störung. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Foreword / D. Goldberg
Ch. 1. Introduction / G. Thornicroft and M. Tansella
Ch. 2. Statistical Methods for Measuring Outcomes / G. Dunn
Ch. 3. Global Function Scales / M. Phelan, T. Wykes and H. Goldman
Ch. 4. Satisfaction with Psychiatric Services / M. Ruggeri
Ch. 5. Instruments Measuring Family of Caregiver Burden in Severe Mental Illness / A.H. Schene, R.C. Tessler and G.M. Gamache
Ch. 6. Measures of Quality of Life Among Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Disorders / A.F. Lehman
Ch. 7. Quality of Mental Health Service Care: The Forgotten Pathway from Process to Outcome / T.S. Brugha and F. Lindsay
Ch. 8. Measuring Social Disabilities in Mental Health / D. Wiersma
Ch. 9. SCAN (Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry) and the PSE (Present State Examination) Tradition / J. Wing
Ch. 10. Mental Health Care Costs: Paucity of Measurement / P. McCrone and S. Weich.