This innovative monograph introduces a measurement-based framework for
effective treatment of patients with mood disorders, personality
disorders, and schizophrenia. Rooted firmly in principles of
pharmacotherapy and clinical psychometrics, the book's signature diagram
balances rating scale results and patient self-reported progress along
three angles: therapeutic effects, adverse effects, and quality of life.
The author's choices of measures are brief, valid, widely used, and easy
for clinicians to administer and patients to understand. But rather than
being a mechanistic or an impersonal formula, this system is shown as a
science-based means of fostering constructive collaboration between
patient and therapist, leading to greater patient well-being.
Included in the coverage:
- Negative mental health: the ordinary symptom-orientated mental
disorders.
- The basic diagram of personality dimensions.
- Self-reported symptom scales within the basic diagram.
- Clinician-administered symptom scales within the basic diagram.
- The pharmacopsychometric triangle in measurement-based care.
- Diagnostic rating scales.
- A practical outcome evaluation plan.
Offering a medical level of precision to mental health,
Measurement-Based Care in Mental Disorders should interest health care
providers at all levels, particularly physicians and staff in primary
care settings, and in psychiatric in- and outpatient clinics, including
psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, and social workers.
