Handbook of psychiatric measures
By: Task Force for the Handbook of Psychiatric Measures ; A. John Rush, Jr. ... [et al.]
Contributors: Rush, A. John
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 820
Subjects: Psychiatric rating scales -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Description: CD includes: full text of Handbook of psychiatric measures, plus more than 100 measures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Organization and use of the handbook; title: Ch. 2. Psychometric properties: concepts of reliability and validity; title: Ch. 3. Considerations in choosing, using, and interpreting a measure for a particular clinical context; title: Ch. 4. Considerations in choosing, using, and interpreting measures for health care systems; title: Ch. 5. Cultural factors influencing the selection, use, and interpretation of psychiatric measures; title: Ch. 6. Diagnostic interviews for adults; title: Ch. 7. General psychiatric symptoms measures; title: Ch. 8. Mental health status, functioning, and disabilities measures; title: Ch. 9. General health status, functioning, and disabilities measures; title: Ch. 10. Quality of life measures; title: Ch. 11. Adverse effects measures; title: Ch. 12. Patient perceptions of care measures; title: Ch. 13. Practitioner and system evaluation; title: Ch. 14. Stress and life events measures; title: Ch. 15. Family and relational issues measures; title: Ch. 16. Suicide risk measures; title: Ch. 17. Child and adolescent measures for diagnosis and screening; title: Ch. 18. Symptom-specific measures for disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence; title: Ch. 19. Child and adolescent measures of functional status; title: Ch. 20. Behavioral measures for cognitive disorders; title: Ch. 21. Neuropsychiatric measures for cognitive disorders; title: Ch. 22. Substance use disorders measures; title: Ch. 23. Psychotic disorders measures; title: Ch. 24. Mood disorders measures; title: Ch. 25. Anxiety disorders measures; title: Ch. 26. Somatoform and factitious disorders and malingering measures; title: Ch. 27. Dissociative disorders measures; title: Ch. 28. Sexual disorders measures; title: Ch. 29. Eating disorders measures; title: Ch. 30. Sleep disorders measures; title: Ch. 31. Impulse-control disorders measures; title: Ch. 32. Personality disorders, personality traits, and defense mechanisms measures