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Guide to Assessment Scales in Bipolar Disorder

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction

    • Eduard Vieta
    Pages 1-1
  3. Global assessment scales

    • Eduard Vieta
    Pages 3-7
  4. Detection of bipolar I

    • Eduard Vieta
    Pages 9-15
  5. Detection of bipolar II

    • Eduard Vieta
    Pages 17-21
  6. Assessment of mania in bipolar disorder

    • Eduard Vieta
    Pages 27-32
  7. Assessment of hypomania

    • Eduard Vieta
    Pages 33-39
  8. Assessment of pediatric bipolar disorder

    • Eduard Vieta
    Pages 47-68
  9. Assessment of comorbidities

    • Eduard Vieta
    Pages 69-71
  10. Assessment of functioning

    • Eduard Vieta
    Pages 73-76
  11. Assessment of suicidality

    • Eduard Vieta
    Pages 77-81
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 83-92

About this book

A guide to the recent developments in the assessment of bipolar disorder written by respected authors in the field of psychiatry

Written for psychiatrists, clinical researchers, mental health nurses and other healthcare professionals who use rating scales in clinical practice

Provides rating scales that can be used for the systematic evaluation of patients in standard clinical practice

The evidence base in each chapter has been expanded and brought fully up-to-date

  

  

  

Schizophrenia is a chronic disease encompassing a range of symptoms including hallucinations, delusions and social withdrawal. Different measurement tools are utilized to assess the symptoms of schizophrenia. The previous two editions of the Guide to Assessment Scales in Schizophrenia are now outdated and no longer clinically correct so this completely new edition written by a new team of leading clinicians and researchers brings you fully up to date with recent developments.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain

    Eduard Vieta

About the author

Eduard Vieta is Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Bipolar Disorders Program of the Hospital Clinic at the University of Barcelona, Spain. His program is dedicated to providing excellent healthcare for people with bipolar disorder,  ducation and research, and has received worldwide recognition. Professor Vieta also serves as Director of Research at the Clinical Institute of Neuroscience at the same institution and has been an invited Professor at Harvard University, Boston, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Guide to Assessment Scales in Bipolar Disorder

  • Book Subtitle: Second Edition

  • Authors: Eduard Vieta

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-907673-26-9

  • Publisher: Springer Healthcare Tarporley

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Healthcare Ltd. 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85873-442-2Published: 18 July 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-907673-26-9Published: 10 November 2011

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: VII, 92

  • Topics: Psychiatry

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