Guide to Assessment Scales in Bipolar Disorder: Second Edition [Paperback]

A guide to the recent developments in the assessment of bipolar disorder written by respected authors in the field of psychiatry

Written for psychiatrists, clinical researchers, mental health nurses and other healthcare professionals who use rating scales in clinical practice

Provides rating scales that can be used for the systematic evaluation of patients in standard clinical practice

The evidence base in each chapter has been expanded and brought fully up-to-date

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Schizophrenia is a chronic disease encompassing a range of symptoms including hallucinations, delusions and social withdrawal. Different measurement tools are utilized to assess the symptoms of schizophrenia. The previous two editions of the Guide to Assessment Scales in Schizophrenia are now outdated and no longer clinically correct so this completely new edition written by a new team of leading clinicians and researchers brings you fully up to date with recent developments.

Building on the success of the first edition, this second edition has been extensively revised and updated to include recent developments in the assessment of bipolar disorder. Each chapter summarizes the key issues surrounding a particular area of bipolar disorder or bipolar spectrum disorder and presents the most commonly used scales in their evaluation. The evidence base in each chapter has been expanded and brought fully up-to-date. In addition, two new chapters have been added on assessment of functioning and assessment of suicide risk in patients with bipolar disorder. The assessment of functioning chapter introduces the newly developed and validated scale, the Functional Assessment Short Test, which assesses six major areas of functioning and is now widely used as an outcome measure in epidemiologic and observational studies. The assessment of suicidality chapter features the Cls(