Mental Health Service Evaluation

A comprehensive international review providing guidance in appropriate research strategies for evaluation of mental health services.

Helle Charlotte Knudsen (Edited by), Graham Thornicroft (Edited by), Norman Sartorius (Foreword by)

9780521460880, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 March 1996

400 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.7 cm, 0.76 kg

With the international consensus towards community care of the mentally ill, there came a growing need for meaningful evaluation of services. Redressing the lack of guidance this book describes how to do mental health service research. It comprehensively reviews developments in research design, method and measurement at the level of both whole service systems and individual programmes within mental health services. Each of the issues is adeptly illustrated with practical descriptions of comprehensive evaluation projects. The important advances already achieved in knowledge about effective services are highlighted along with descriptions of future work that will further develop our understanding of meeting patient requirements. This volume will appeal to all who are involved in mental health service research as well as those who make use of their results.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Deinstitutionalisation: promises, problems and prospects L. L. Bachrach
2. Background and goals of evaluative research in community psychiatry H. Häfner and W.an der Heiden
3. Research designs for the evaluation of services J. K.Wing
4. Evaulation and public policy F. J. Sullivan
Part II. Comprehensive Service Evaluation Projects: 5. The Copenhagen community psychiatric project (CCPP) H. C. Knudsen, A. Krasnik, M. Nordentoft, B. Jessen-Petersen and H. Sælan
6. The Mannheim project H. Häfner and W. an der Heiden
7. Psychiatric evaluation as a process of quality assurance C-G. Stefansson
Part III. Methods-Measurement, Strategies and New Approaches: 8. Strategies of measurement and analyses W. W. Eaton
9. Experimental and quasi-experimental design in evaluative research W. an der Heiden
10. An informal introduction to graphical modelling S. Kreiner
11. Meta-analysis C. Adams, N. Freemantle and G. Lewis
Part IV. System Level Research: 12. Sectorized services outcome research L. Hansson
13. Dynamic analysis of patterns of care S. Sytema and T. Oldehinkel
14. Social indicators of outcome at the system level P. Huxley
15. Psychiatric admission rates: the relationship with health and social factors and the effects of confounding variables B. Jarman
Part V. Programme Level Research: 16. Randomised controlled trials of programmes H. Kluiter, and D. Wiersma
17. Individual patient outcomes M. Rugeri and M. Tansella
18. Caregiving in severe mental illness: conceptualization and measurement A. H. Schene, R. C. Tessler and G. Gamache
19. Needs assessment G. Thornicroft, M. Phelan and G.Strathdee
Part VI. Health Economics in Mental Health: 20. Programme-level and system-level health economics M. Knapp and J. Beecham.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]