Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health (Current Clinical Psychiatry)

Psychiatric clinicians should use rating scales and questionnaires often, for they not only facilitate targeted diagnoses and treatment; they also facilitate links to empirical literature and systematize the entire process of management. Clinically oriented and highly practical, the Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health is an ideal tool for the busy psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, family physician, or social worker. In this ground-breaking text, leading researchers provide reviews of the most commonly used outcome and screening measures for the major psychiatric diagnoses and treatment scenarios. The full range of psychiatric disorders are covered in brief but thorough chapters, each of which provides a concise review of measurement issues related to the relevant condition, along with recommendations on which dimensions to measure – and when. The Handbook also includes ready-to-photocopy versions of the most popular, valid, and reliable scales and checklists, along with scoring keys and links to websites containing on-line versions. Moreover, the Handbook describes well known, structured, diagnostic interviews and the specialized training requirements for each. It also includes details of popular psychological tests (such as neuropsychological, personality, and projective tests), along with practical guidelines on when to request psychological testing, how to discuss the case with the assessment consultant and how to integrate information from the final testing report into treatment. Focused and immensely useful, the Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health is an invaluable resource for all clinicians who care for patients with psychiatric disorders.

Psychiatric clinicians should use rating scales and questionnaires often, for they not only facilitate targeted diagnoses and treatment; they also facilitate links to empirical literature and systematize the entire process of management. Clinically oriented and highly practical, the Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health is an ideal tool for the busy psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, family physician, or social worker. In this ground-breaking text, leading researchers provide reviews of the most commonly used outcome and screening measures for the major psychiatric diagnoses and treatment scenarios. The full range of psychiatric disorders are covered in brief but thorough chapters, each of which provides a concise review of measurement issues related to the relevant condition, along with recommendations on which dimensions to measure—and when. The Handbook also includes ready-to-phoopy versions of the most popular, valid, and reliable scales and checklists, along with scoring keys and links to websites containing on-line versions. Moreover, the Handbook describes well known, structured, diagnostic interviews and the specialized training requirements for each. It also includes details of popular psychological tests (such as neuropsychological, personality, and projective tests), along with practical guidelines on when to request psychological testing, how to discuss the case with the assessment consultant and how to integrate information from the final testing report into treatment.

Focused and immensely useful, the Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health is an invaluable resource for all clinicians who care for patients with psychiatric disorders.

PrefaceLee Baer, Mark BlaisTable of all Rating Scales Contained in this HandbookChapter 1: Understanding Rating Scales and Rating Instruments - Mark Blais, Lee BaerChapter 2: Rating Scales for Depression - Cristina Cusin, Huaiyu Yang, Albert Yeun, Maurizio FavaChapter 3: Rating Scales for Anxiety Disorders - Luana Marques, Anne Chosak, Naomi M. Simon, Dieu-My Phan, Sabine Wilhelm, Mark PollackChapter 4: Rating Scales for Bipolar Disorder - Roy H. PerlisChapter 5: Rating Scales for Alcohol and Nicotine Addictions - Julie Yeterian, Gladys Pachas, Eden Evins, John KellyChapter 6: Screening for personality disorders in Psychiatric Settings: Four recently developed screening measures - Caleb J. SiefertChapter 7: Clinical Ratings Scales and Assessment in Eating Disorders - Jennifer L. Derenne, Christina W. Baker, Sherrie S. Delinsky, Anne E. Becker Chapter 8: The use of rating scales to measure outcomes in child psychiatry and mental health - J. Michael Murphy, Michael S. Jellinek, Gwyne W. WhiteChapter 9: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Laura E. Knouse, Steven SafrenChapter 10: Rating Scales in Schizophrenia - Jennifer D. Gottlieb, Xiaoduo Fan, Donald C. Goff.Chapter 11: Brief Rating Scales for the Assessment of Cognitive and Neuropsychological Status - Matthew R. BaityChapter 12: Rating Scales in Psychotherapy Practice: Rationale and Practical Applications - Jesse Owen, Zac ImelChapter 13: Assessing the Ongoing Psychological Impact of Terrorism - Samuel J. Sinclair, Alice LoCiceroChapter 14: The Comprehensive Psychological Assessment - Steven R. Smith, Jessica A. Little, Lisa A. Nowinski, Sara J. WalkerChapter 15: The Role of Outcomes Assessment in Clinical Quality ImprovementIlse R. Wiechers, Anthony Weiss Annotation This handbook provides the busy psychiatric clinician (psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, psychiatric nurse or counselor) with a truly easy-to-use and practical guide to using focused assessments for improving patient care. The book identifies gold-standard scales used to assess patients, provides ready-to-copy versions of these scales (when copyrights permit), and provides practical information about the clinical use of the scales such as when to administer, how to score, how to interpret results, and how to use to measure clinical change in patients Contains reviews of the commonly used outcome and screening measures for the major psychiatric diagnoses and treatment scenarios. This book contains a range of psychiatric disorders; each of which provides a review of measurement issues related to the relevant condition, along with recommendations on which dimensions to measure - and when. This groundbreaking guide provides numerous rating scales and questionnaires used in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment as well as a review of the most commonly-used outcome and screening measures. It covers a full range of psychological disorders.