Mental health service evaluation /
edited by Helle Charlotte Knudsen, Graham Thornicroft ; foreword by Norman Sartorius.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- 1 online resource (xx, 379 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry .
- Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).
Deinstitutionalisation : promises, problems and prospects / Leona L. Bachrach -- Background and goals of evaluative research in community psychiatry / Heinz Häfner and Wolfram an der Heiden -- Research designs for the evaluation of services / John K. Wing -- Evaluation and public policy / Frank J. Sullivan -- The Copenhagen Community Psychiatric Project (CCPP) / Helle Charlotte Knudsen [and others] -- The Mannheim Project / Heinz Häfner and Wolfram an der Heiden -- Psychiatric evaluation as a process of quality assurance / Claes-Göran Stefansson -- Strategies of measurement and analyses / William W. Eaton -- Experimental and quasi-experimental design in evaluative research / Wolfram an der Heiden -- An informal introduction to graphical modelling / Svend Kreiner -- Meta-analysis / Clive Adams, Nick Freemantle and Glyn Lewis -- Sectorised services outcome research / Lars Hansson -- Dynamic analysis of patterns of care / Sjoerd Sytema and Tineke Oldehinkel -- Social indicators of outcome at the system level / Peter Huxley --Psychiatric admission rates : the relationship with health and social factors and the effects of confounding variables / Brian Jarman -- Randomised controlled trials of programmes / Herman Kluiter and Durk Wiersma -- Individual patient outcomes / Mirella Ruggeri and Michele Tansella -- Caregiving in severe mental illness : conceptualisation and measurement / Aart H. Schene, Richard C. Tessler and Gail M. Gamache -- Needs assessment / Graham Thornicroft, Michael Phelan and Geraldine Strathdee -- Programme-level and system-level health economics / Martin Knapp and Jennifer Beecham.
With the international consensus towards community care of the mentally ill, there came a growing need for meaningful evaluation of services. Redressing the lack of guidance this book describes how to do mental health service research. It comprehensively reviews developments in research design, method and measurement at the level of both whole service systems and individual programmes within mental health services. Each of the issues is adeptly illustrated with practical descriptions of comprehensive evaluation projects. The important advances already achieved in knowledge about effective services are highlighted along with descriptions of future work that will further develop our understanding of meeting patient requirements. This volume will appeal to all who are involved in mental health service research as well as those who make use of their results.
9780511752650 (ebook)
Community mental health services--Evaluation. Community mental health services--Research.