Handbook of Psychiatric Measures

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.