This text provides an overview of the diagnosis, treatment and management of the most common mental disorders encountered in primary care. Published to mark the retirement of Professor Sir David Goldberg, contributors bring together clinical and research work drawn from psychiatry, medicine, psychology, social work and sociology. Topics include: the biological basis of common mental disorders; disability and depression in primary care; the limits of mental health care in general medical clinics; improving the management of mental disorders in the elderly; and training the whole primary care...

There have been major changes to mental health services internationally in recent years revolving around the concept of care in the community. Although speed of change and precise service mechanisms differ among countries, there is nevertheless an increasingly widespread consensus on key components essential to adequate care provision. This in turn provides an opportunity to develop a widely acceptable model framework to direct future developments. This book proposes a simple model that can be used as a guide to increased clinical effectiveness through focused evidence-based reform. Using a...

Mental Health Outcome Measures provides an authoritative review of measurement scales currently available to assess the outcomes of mental health service intervention. The excerpt of summaries by leading writers in the field assess the contributions of scale in areas including mental state examination, quality of life, patient satisfaction, needs assessments, measurement of service cost, global functioning scales, and social disability. These chapters provide a critical appraisal of how far such scales have been shown to be reliable and valid, and provide valuable insights in to their...