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Psychiatric Assessment and Diagnosis

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In psychiatry, as in any helping profession, effective clinical intervention depends on a comprehensive evaluation of the individual seeking treatment. The interrelated fields of psychiatric diagnosis and assessment constitute a wide and ever-expanding range of strategies designed to serve that purpose. Although an exhaustive survey of these methods would be impractical, this chapter details some of the more important and useful assessment techniques available to the practicing clinician. Our discussion of these techniques is divided into three main sections. The first concerns diagnosis and classification, including the use of structured diagnostic interviews. The second describes the growing use of convenient indirect measures of symptomatology, namely, self-report questionnaires and clinician rating scales. The third section reviews observation-based assessment techniques designed to measure abnormal behavior more directly in natural or in clinical or analogue settings. Because each of these methods has unique strengths and limitations, they are almost never used in isolation. Instead, the coordinated use of multiple assessment strategies, which allows for the identification of a consistent pattern of information, is generally the optimal approach.

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Wixted, J.T., Morrison, R.L., Rinaldi, R.C. (1993). Psychiatric Assessment and Diagnosis. In: Bellack, A.S., Hersen, M. (eds) Handbook of Behavior Therapy in the Psychiatric Setting. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2430-8_4

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