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| Handbook of Psychiatric Measures, Second Edition | 
| Creators: A. John Rush Jr., Michael B. First, Deborah Blacker
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $195.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 368990
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 864
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.6
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.8 x 2
ISBN: 1585622184
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89075
EAN: 9781585622184
ASIN: 1585622184
Publication Date: December 3, 2007
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Product Description
The Handbook of Psychiatric Measures, Second Edition, offers a compendium of the most noteworthy, widely used, and important new efforts in clinical and research measures. Clinicians, researchers, and managed care administrators will have at their fingertips expert assessment of over 275 measures in a wide array of domains, including a review of each measure's clinical utility, goals, practical issues, and psychometric properties. Use of this special resource is further enhanced by a CD-ROM containing the full text of 150 of these measures--an invaluable aid for reference and clinical decision-making.
In this fully revised edition, more than 40 measures have been added to the discussion and to the CD-ROM. In addition to reassessing measures for inclusion--adding measures that empirically provide better patient evaluation and subtracting measures that have been superseded--chapter authors have thoroughly examined and revised measure discussions to provide the most relevant and timely information for clinicians. Costs, translations, and contact information for each measure have also been updated.
Introductory chapters provide background on the application of measures in specific contexts, including a discussion of cultural factors, psychometric properties, and the clinical selection of measures. Readers are then fully equipped with extensive coverage of general diagnostic measures for adults, and measures to evaluate psychiatric symptoms, mental and physical health status, quality of life, adverse effects, patient perceptions of care, stress and life events, family and relational issues, and suicide risk. Next, 17 disorder-specific chapters impart expert review of measures for disorders of childhood and adolescence, cognitive disorders, substance use, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, psychotic disorders, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, impulse-control, sexual dysfunction, eating disorders, sleep disorders, and aggression. Each chapter includes updated measure descriptions, new measure variants and research, and newly selected measures particularly appropriate to the domain of discussion.
The Handbook of Psychiatric Measures, Second Edition, promises to become one of the most-used and highly valued resources at a clinician's, researcher's, and administrator's disposal. Much more than a summary of measures, this revised edition provides the essential information to make better decisions about the use of a particular measure.
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| Customer Reviews:
 No scoring procedures but otherwise acceptable March 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 January 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 March 15, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 November 14, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
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.
Excellent resource for health scales May 22, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was primarily interested in social health scales, and found this book to be an invaluable listing of many of the scales available, including reliability and validity information, and actual scale text on e-file with the attached CD. Not for psychiatrists only, for any health researcher interested in using tested scales.
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