Assessment Scales in Depression, Mania and Anxiety

Omtale

To meet the needs of clinicians treating patients with depressive and anxiety disorders, this volume brings together empirically validated assessment scales. This volume will serve several purposes for clinicians: 1) to illustrate the assessment scales used in clinical trials and research studies; 2) to show how to select an assessment scale, and to decide which scale to use for a particular clinical situation; and 3) to provide sample assessment scales to use in clinical practice.This book will be invaluable to psychiatrists, family physicians, other primary care physicians, psychologists, nurses, social workers, as well as to graduate students in clinical psychology, medicine, and nursing.