Mental Health Outcome Measures

About the editors:Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London and Michele Tansella is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Verona, Italy.

• List of tables, boxes and figures; List of contributors; Foreword David Goldberg; Foreword Robert E. Drake; Preface: an evolving perspective of mental health outcome measures; Part I. Methodological Issues: 1. Measures of outcomes that are valued by service users Thomas Kahir and Til Wykes; 2. Statistical methods for measuring outcomes Graham Dunn; 3. Assessment instruments in mental health: description and metric properties Luis Salvador-Carulla and Juan-Luis González-Caballero; 4. Using outcomes in routine clinical practice to support recovery Mike Slade, Lindsay Oades and Bernd Puschner; Part II. Domains of Outcome Measurement: 5. Global functioning scales Emese Csipke and Til Wykes; 6. Satisfaction with mental health services Mirella Ruggeri; 7. Measuring family and carer burden in severe mental illness: the instruments Bob van Wijngaarden and Aart H. Schene; 8. Measures of quality of life for persons with severe mental disorders Anthony F. Lehman and Antonio Lasalvia; 9. Measuring social disabilities in mental health and employment outcomes Durk Wiersma and Thomas Becker; 10. Measuring the costs of mental healthcare Paul McCrone and Scott Weich; 11. Assessing needs for mental healthcare Mike Slade, Sonia Johnson, Michael Phelan and Graham Thornicroft; 12. Measuring stigma and discrimination related to mental illness Elaine Brohan, Mike Slade, Sarah Clement and Graham Thornicroft; Part III. Symptom Severity Outcome Measures: 13. Top-down versus bottom-up measures of depression David Goldberg; 14. Symptom severity outcome measures for depression Tom Trauer and David J. Castle; 15. Outcome measures for people with personality disorders Paul Moran and Rohan Borschmann; 16. The Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry and the tradition of the Present State Examination John K. Wing and Traolach S. Brugha; Part IV. International Approaches to Outcome Assessment: 17. Psychiatric assessment instruments developed by the World Health Organization Norman Sartorius, Aleksander Janca, Shekhar Saxena and T. Bedirhan Üstün; 18. Measuring outcomes in mental health: implications for policy Rachel Jenkins, Graham Mellsop and Bruce Singh; 19. Outcome measures for the treatment of depression in primary care William E. Narrow and Farifteh F. Duffy; Index.

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