Rating Scales in Psychiatry

This book guides the reader through the crucial process of selecting which rating scales to use for psychiatric research. Choosing the right scales will save you time and money, and affect the validity and comparability of your results. Each scale is listed with its citation rate as a guide to its popularity among the research community. It is the chapter on rating scales taken from our title 'Research Methods in Psychiatry' (3rd edn) from 2006.