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Assessing Needs for Mental Health Services

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Mental Health Outcome Measures

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If mental health services aim to meet needs both at the levels of the individual patient and of the whole population, then three key issues emerge: how can needs be defined, who should assess them and how can this information be best used? This chapter addresses these issues in three stages: by presenting definitions of need, by reviewing methods of assessing individual needs for treatment, and by outlining how needs for services at the population level can be measured.

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  1. Institute of Psychiatry, PRiSM, SE5 8AF, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, UK

    Sonia Johnson, Graham Thornicroft, Michael Phelan & Michael Slade

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  1. Institute of Psychiatry, PRiSM, SE5 8AF, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, UK

    Graham Thornicroft

  2. Servizio di Psicologia Medica, Istituto di Psichiatria, Università di Verona, Ospedale Policlinico, I-37134, Verona, Italy

    Michele Tansella

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Johnson, S., Thornicroft, G., Phelan, M., Slade, M. (2010). Assessing Needs for Mental Health Services. In: Thornicroft, G., Tansella, M. (eds) Mental Health Outcome Measures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80202-7_16

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