This handbook provides the busy psychiatric clinician (psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, psychiatric nurse or counselor) with a truly easy-to-use and practical guide to using focused assessments for improving patient care. The book identifies gold-standard scales used to assess patients, provides ready-to-copy versions of these scales (when copyrights permit), and provides practical information about the clinical use of the scales such as when to administer, how to score, how to interpret results, and how to use to measure clinical change in patients. | Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health by Lee Baer, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters