Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health
Psychiatric clinicians should use rating scales and questionnaires often, for they not only facilitate targeted diagnoses and treatment; they also facilitate links to empirical literature and systematize the entire process of management. Clinically orient
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Series Editor Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, MD Chief of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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Lee Baer · Mark A. Blais Editors
Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health
Editors Lee Baer Department of Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School One Bowdoin Square Boston MA 02114 USA [email protected]
Mark A. Blais Department of Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School One Bowdoin Square Boston MA 02114 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-58829-966-6 e-ISBN 978-1-59745-387-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-59745-387-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933281 © Humana Press, a part of Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Humana Press, c/o Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper springer.com
L. B.: Dedicated to Carole Ann, Emily, David, and Bernice Baer. M. A. B.: Dedicated to Earlene Shannon Blais “The best mom a boy like me could ever have.”
Preface
Our intention in preparing this handbook was to provide the busy psychiatric clinician (psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, psychiatric nurse or counselor) with a truly easy-to-use and practical guide to using focused assessments for improving the care of their patients. We hope we have come close to realizing this goal, and that you will find, as we have, that integrating a few select scales, like those included in this volume, into your routine clinical practice will benefit you and your patients. To accomplish our goal of making this a clinically useful book, we have invited our chapter authors (who are primarily members of specialty clinical and clinical research programs at our hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston): (1) to identify the “gold-standard” scales they routinely use to assess patients in their own clinics, (2) to provide ready-to-copy versions of these scales (when copyrights permit), and (3) to provide practical information about t
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