Main description:

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.

Contents:

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. Sorensen 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.