Handbook of Psychiatric Measures

Hardcover: 900 pages + bonus CD-ROM
8.5" x 11"
ISBN 1585622184
978-1585622184
American Psychiatric Association
July 2000
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Public and private entities are rapidly developing new methods for measuring and reviewing psychiatric care—methods that may not always reflect good research into the perspective of clinicians. Mental health providers and their patients are being held to new “criteria” in determinations of access to services.

A wide range of clinical and policy issues are affected by the selection and application of psychiatric measures: eligibility determinations, outcomes assessment, pricing, and risk adjustment, as well as activities related to quality assurance and utilization review. The Handbook of Psychiatric Measures responds to these challenges.

The handbook provides clinicians working in mental health or primary care settings with a compendium of the available rating scales, tests, and measures that may be useful for caring for patients with mental illnesses. In addition, it provides guidance to clinicians, policy makers, and planners on how to better understand and properly use clinical measures to assess performance of individual providers or groups of providers in health care delivery systems.

In selecting, applying, and interpreting a measure, clinicians must be knowledgeable about the nuances of measurement, including not only the psychometric properties of an instrument (e.g., its reliability or validity), but, even more importantly, the factors that affect the clinical utility of the measure.

This handbook supplies that knowledge, with detailed information about components, reliability, validity, and clinical utility, including strengths and weaknesses, for each measure included.

Accompanying this handbook is a CD-ROM that includes complete copies of 148 measures discussed in the handbook — over 900 pages of measures. 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inclusion - adding measures that empirically provide better patient evaluation and subtracting measures that have been superseded - chapter authors have thoroughly examined and revised measure discussions to provide the most relevant and timely information for clinicians.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.

The CD-ROM also includes the complete, unabridged text of the Handbook of Psychiatric Measures, in fully searchable form. The electronic version is replete with links and cross-references, including links from the text of the handbook to the actual measures being discussed.

A. John Rush Jr., M.D., is the Rosewood Corporation Chair in Biomedical Science and the Betty Jo Hay Distinguished Chair in Mental Health at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

Michael B. First, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Research Psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York, New York.

Deborah Blacker, M.D., Sc.D., is Assistant Vice Chair for Research; Director, Gerontology Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital East, Charlestown, Massachusetts; and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts.

“More than a mere collection of assessment tools, the Handbook is an excellent resource not only for clinicians and researchers but also for policy makers, planners, and students. . . . As useful as the Handbook is, the accompanying CD-ROM makes this set an indispensable resource.”—Kenneth E. Fletcher, Ph.D., Psychiatric Services

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