Measuring Psychopathology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 February 2002
- ISBN 9780192630803
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 216x139x13 mm
- Weight 294 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables, boxes and 3 figures 0
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Short description:
Measuring Psychopathology describes the methods by which signs and symptoms of mental disorders are elicited, examined and evaluated. The content covers the development of standardised interviews, questionnaires and rating scales.
MoreLong description:
Measuring Psychopathology describes the methods by which the signs and symptoms of mental disorder are elicited, examined and evaluated.
Written for the non-clinical researcher as well as for those with clinical experience, the authors start by considering the question 'what is psychopathology?' They then employ a historical perspective to explain why and how mental disorders are currently classified, and how the use of an operational approach to diagnosis was adopted. The use of operational criteria to define psychiatric disorder has facilitated the development of standardised interviewing techniques, questionnaires and rating scales. These tools are all covered in some detail, not only with regard to adults with mental disorders, but also with reference to special and challenging groups such as children and the elderly, and those with a learning disability, substance misuse, or who have a personality disorder.
The strengths and weaknesses of current methodologies are explored and debated as well as the future diagnostic needs for research in the 21st century.
Essential reading for clinicians and non-clinical scientists engaged in research on psychiatric disorders, trainees and junior psychiatrists, and clinical psychologists.
This is a very useful little book that should be in departmental libraries. In a brief and readable style it gives an overall contemporary account of interviewing schedules and ratings scales, and many of the problems of psychiatric classification and diagnosis . . . Any health care worker who wants to know something about the main tools of contemporary research into mental health problems should find the book useful.
Table of Contents:
What is psychopathology
Describing symptoms and signs
Defining and classifying disorders
Validity, reliability and utility
Diagnostic interviews
Polydiagnostic approaches, computerised methods and best estimate diagnoses
Rating scales: screening, observer and self rating questionnaires
Measuring psychopathology in specific subject groups
Personality and personality disorders
Psychopathology in the Twenty-First Century
References
Appendix: websites for further information
