Public and private entities are rapidly developing new methods for measuring and reviewing psychiatric careAmethods that may not always reflect good research into the perspective of clinicians. Mental health providers and their patients are being held to new AcriteriaA 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 108 measures discussed in the handbookAover 900 pages of measures. 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.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

No scoring procedures but otherwise acceptable:

I expected that the book would have scoring procedures for the measures included in the book; however, I did not find any. These should be added to improve the utility of the measures included.

Essential Handbook:

This is an essential reference for anyone in the mental health field, both in research and/or clinical practice. The major scales are all covered in detail with full explanations. This is the latest edition that is fully up-to-date. Definitely worth the price.

Value in the Handbook of Psychiatric Measures:

I purchased this book because of my studies in family therapy in particular family therapy with young clients who have a developing mental illness.
This book will assist in clarifying issues and lead to a speedy resolution of their problems, and assist families in helping their family member in the recovery process

A Disappointment:

The book is good..... The CD that is included containing the actual tests, inventories and measures on it is nearly unacceptable as far as quality. The scanning job was poor and there is nothing that can be done to improve the quality or change the size. if I had seen it prior to purchase, I wouldn't have bought it. Additionally, when I contacted the publisher, the customer servifce representative was not even remotely interested in my concern or feedback.

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