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Measurement-Based Care in Mental Disorders

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Per Bech

    1. Mental Health Center North Zealand, University of Copenhagen, Hillerød, Denmark

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  • Concise review and guidelines for enhancing evidence-based practice
  • Focuses on the two most important problems in mental health – anxiety and depression
  • Highlights measurement scales that have been scientifically validated
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Negative Mental Health: The Ordinary Mental Disorders. Categories Versus Dimensions

    • Per Bech
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Basic Diagram of Personality Dimensions

    • Per Bech
    Pages 9-13

  4. Self-reported Symptom State Scales Derived from the SCL-90

    • Per Bech
    Pages 15-30

  5. Clinician-Administered Symptom Scales Within the Basic Diagram

    • Per Bech
    Pages 31-42

  6. Positive Mental Health

    • Per Bech
    Pages 43-47

  7. The Pharmacopsychometric Triangle for Measurement-Based Care

    • Per Bech
    Pages 49-53

  8. Diagnostic Rating Scales

    • Per Bech
    Pages 55-77

  9. Social Functioning: Disability

    • Per Bech
    Pages 79-84

  10. A Practical Outcome Evaluation Plan

    • Per Bech
    Pages 85-88

  11. Conclusion

    • Per Bech
    Pages 89-90

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 91-93
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About this book

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.

 

Reviews

“In this newly published ultra-short book he presents an attractive line-up of easy-to-use scales and questionnaires to aid the diagnosis of mental disorders and monitoring of symptoms in treatment. … The book presents validated rating scales and questionnaires that are brief and easy to administer. So if you are a busy clinician, a clinical researcher or just looking for better ways to monitor the effects of your treatment, Per Bech’s book may indeed help you.” (Niels Okkels and Erik Roj Larsen, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Vol. 136, 2017) 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Mental Health Center North Zealand, University of Copenhagen, Hillerød, Denmark

    Per Bech

About the author

Per Bech received a medical degree from Copenhagen University in 1969. In 1972 he received a gold medal award from Århus University for his thesis on the dose-response relationship between cannabis (tetrahydrocannabinol) and various psychological measurements, including time experience and reaction time in simulated car driving. He completed a doctorate thesis (Dr.Med.Sci) at Copenhagen University on the clinical and psychometric validity of rating scales in depression and mania in 1981. He was appointed Professor of Psychiatry at Odense University in 1992 and in 2008 he was appointed Professor of Applied or Clinical Psychometrics at Copenhagen University. Since 1981 he has headed the Psychiatric Research Unit at The Mental Health Centre North Zealand in Hillerød (Capital Region of Denmark). He is an honorary member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA).

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