Mental Health Outcome Measures

-Provides the building blocks for evidence-based mental health service provision and evaluation.

-The importance of assessing outcomes in mental health services has never been greater, as the nature of evidence-based medicine demands that psychiatric outcomes are measurable and practicable. Yet, outcomes have always been notoriously difficult to quantify.

-Change of perspective: more importance now given to outcomes that are valued by service users themselves.

-Third edition is thoroughly updated to include all the recent developments in the field.

-It documents the continued and rapid production of new scales and the translation of psychometrically well established scales into new languages.

Readership

All those involved in researching, purchasing and delivering mental health services.

Related title: International Outcome Measures in Mental Health, ISBN 9781904671008

RCPsych Publications is the publishing arm of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (based in London, United Kingdom), which has been promoting excellence in mental health care since 1841. Produced by the same editorial team who publish The British Journal of Psychiatry, they sell books for both psychiatrists and other mental health professionals; and also many written for the general public. Their popular series include the College Seminars Series, the NICE mental health guidelines and the Books Beyond Words series for people with intellectual disabilities.

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