Diagnosis and Clinical Measurement in Psychiatry

Diagnosis and Clinical Measurement in Psychiatry

A Reference Manual for Scan

Herausgeber: Wing, J. K.; Ustun, T. B.; Sartorius, Norman
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In order to help people with a mental illness it is important to be able to understand and measure the severity of the experiences that they find distressing and disabling and which can affect their behaviour. SCAN is a form of interview, found acceptable to patients, which provides a detailed and accurate picture of 'mental state'. When analysed by computer it provides a diagnosis that is comparable wherever the system is used. The 9th edition of the Present State Examination (PSE-9) was published in 1974 and served to link the two main approaches to the description and classification of psyc...