Methodology in Evaluation of Psychiatric Treatment
Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Vienna 10–13 June 1981

First published in 1983, this book is a review of psychiatric treatment by experts in the field from the member countries of the European Medical Research Councils.

T. Helgason (Author)

9780521106092, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 June 2011

292 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg

First published in 1983, this book is a review of psychiatric treatment by experts in the field from the member countries of the European Medical Research Councils, organized by the European Science Foundation. The volume starts by enumerating the various methods for evaluating psychiatric treatment or evaluating the results of treating specific syndromes, and continues with a chapter on the aims of psychiatric treatment and three on methods of classification of mental diseases. The rest of the book deals with evaluation of treatment, starting with special problems encountered in the difficult areas of evaluation of psychotherapy and social therapeutic methods. There are five chapters on various rating scales and methods and one chapter each on psychophysiological and biochemical criteria in the evaluation of treatment. The last contribution to the book is on ethical and practical problems in theraputic research.

Participants
Foreword H. Danielsson
Preface T. Helgason
1. Introduction: evaluation of psychiatric treatment B. Vhronholm and R. J Daly
2. The aims of psychiatric treatment S. Martin Roth
3. Evaluation in mental health programmes N. Sartorious
Part I. Methods of Classification: 4. Principles of 'multiaxial' classification in psychiatry as a basis of modern methodology P. Berner and H. Katschnig
5. Standardized methods of classification of mental disorders J. K. Wing
6. The significance of biological factors in the diagnosis of depressions H. M. van Praag
Part II. Evaluation Criteria: 7. Special problems in evaluation of psychotherapy R. J. Daly
8. Special problems in evaluation of milieu therapy O. S. Dalgard, S. Friis, T. Sørensen and P. Valgum
Part III. Rating Methods in Evaluation of Treatment: 9. The AMP rating methods B. Woggon
10. The comprehensive psychopathological rating scale (CPRS) B. Cronholm
11. The use of rating scales for affective disorders P. Bech
12. Self-rating scales in the evaluation of psychiatric treatment D. von Zerssen
13. Methods for measuring social adjustment H. Katschnig
Part IV. Other Quantitative Methods of Evaluation of Treatment: 14. Psychopathological criteria M. Lader
15. Biological quantitative methods in the evaluation of psychiatric treatment: some biochemical criteria P. Uytdenhoef, P. Linkowski and J. Medlewicz
Part V. Ethical and Practical Problems: 16. Ethical and practical problems in therapeutic research in psychiatry H. Helmchen
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]