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Mental Health Outcome Measures

By Graham Thornicroft , Michele Tansella (auth.) , Professor Graham Thornicroft , Professor Michele Tansella (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1996
ISBN
978-3-642-80204-1, 978-3-642-80202-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-80202-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12487386 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
231\234
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Psychiatry

Description

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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