Mental health care increasingly faces a challenge to be 'evidence based'. However, despite much policy activity in the UK, it's still not clear what sort of evidence researchers should be producing for mental health services, or what purchasers should be looking for. Evidence in Mental Health Care evaluates a range of different research methodologies and types of 'evidence', and includes:

* a historical and conceptual analysis of what was regarded as evidence in the past, and what impact it has had in mental health care
* a presentation of different methodological...

Dieses Buch wendet sich an alle, die in ihrer taglichen Arbeit mit Menschen zu tun haben, die unter psychischen Storungen und Beschwerden aufgrund politischer Inhaftierung in der DDR leiden. Leitmotiv der Autoren und Autorinnen ist, uber bisherige Untersuchungsergebnisse, die Behandlung und Begutachtung dieser Betroffenen zu informieren. Die Schwerpunkte sind
- das Konzept der posttraumatischen Belastungsstorung
- das Ausmass der politischen Verfolgung in der DDR
- die Rolle von Psychiatern in der DDR, besonders der Haft psychiater des Ministeriums fur Sicherheit
- die...

Mental health care increasingly faces a challenge to be 'evidence based'. This book evaluates a range of different research methodologies and types of 'evidence', and includes a presentation of different methodological approaches.

Choosing Methods in Mental Health Research develops a new framework for mental health research. It is concerned with how to choose the most appropriate mental health research method, not only to address a specific question, but to maximize the potential impact on shaping mental health care.

Mike Slade and Stefan Priebe focus attention on the types of audience that the researcher is seeking to influence, the types of evidence each audience accepts as valid, and the relative strengths and limitations of each type of methodology. A range of research methodologies are described...