Handbook of Psychiatric Measures

The "Handbook of Psychiatric Measures" offers a concise summary of key evaluations that clinicians can use in daily practice to enhance the quality of patient care in terms of both diagnosis and assessment of outcomes. Comprising a wide range of methods available for assessing persons with mental health problems, it 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 to the discussion and to the CD-ROM. In addition to reassessing measures for inclusion'adding measures that empirically provide better patient evaluation and subtracting measures that have been superseded'chapter authors have thoroughly examined and revised measure discussions to provide the most relevant and timely information for clinicians. Costs, translations, and contact information for each measure have also been updated.Rush, John A. is the author of 'Handbook of Psychiatric Measures ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781585622184 and ISBN 1585622184.