Mental Health Computing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Clinical Evaluation and Treatment Software

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. MR-E The Mental Retardation-Expert: Performance Support for Clinicians

      • Matthew G. Hile

      Pages 3-16

   3. Sexpert: An Expert System for Sexual Assessment, Counseling, and Treatment

      • Yitzchak M. Binik, Eric P. Ochs, Marta Meana

      Pages 17-33

   4. Computerized Assessment System for Psychotherapy Evaluation and Research (CASPER): Development and Current Status

      • Albert D. Farrell, Leigh McCullough-Vaillant

      Pages 34-53

   5. Computer-Assisted Assessment, Psychotherapy, Education, and Research

      • Richard A. Weaver, Jeffery E. Sells, Phillip W. Christensen

      Pages 54-66

   6. Computerized Psychiatric Assessment in Outpatient Practice

      • Edward A. Workman

      Pages 67-85

   7. Development, Problem Solving, and Generalized Learning: The Therapeutic Learning Program (TLP)

      • Roger L. Gould

      Pages 86-105

   8. Voice Interactive Computers for Attitudinal Interviewing

      • Stuart Gitlow, David R. Gastfriend

      Pages 106-114

   9. How to Create Your Own Computerized Questionnaires

      • Marvin J. Miller, Morgan Tharp

      Pages 115-124

   10. Clinical Experience With a Prescription Writer Program

       • T. Bradley Tanner, Mary P. Metcalf

       Pages 125-136

3. Quality and Cost Control Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Planning for Large-Scale Integrated Clinical Information Systems

      • Virginia S. Price, Robert M. Kolodner

      Pages 139-151

   3. Shifting the Paradigm in Outcome Quality Management

      • Murray P. Naditch

      Pages 152-164

   4. Using Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care

      • Kenric W. Hammond

      Pages 165-182

   5. Treatment Planner: A VA Blueprint for Managed Mental Health Care

      • Kenric W. Hammond

      Pages 183-201

   6. Automated Methods of Clinical Quality Management

      • Chris E. Stout

      Pages 202-214

   7. Monitoring Certification of Independent Providers of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services

      • Bruce W. Vieweg, Robert McClain, Doris Pickerill

      Pages 215-224

   8. Impact of Managed Care on Automation

      • Bruce W. Johnson

      Pages 225-242

   9. VA National Mental Health Microcomputer Data Base System

      • Allan S. Finkelstein

      Pages 243-257

Increasingly more computer applications are becoming available to assist mental health clinicians and administrators in patient evaluation and treatment and mental health management, education, and research. Topics covered include: automated assessment procedures; MR-E (The Mental Retardation Expert); computerized assessment system for psychotherapy evaluation and research; computer assisted therapy of stress related conditions; computerized patient evaluation in a clinical setting; computerized treatment planning; the VA national mental health database; networks; managed care; DSM-IV diagnosis; quality management; cost control; knowledge coupling; telemedicine; the clinical library assistant; and monitoring independent service providers.

• Hypertext
• computer
• database
• diagnosis
• evaluation
• expert system
• multimedia
• networks
• psychiatry
• stress
• therapy

• Department of Phychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine Larue Carter Hospital, Indianapolis, USA

  Marvin J. Miller

• Department of Phychiatry, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Tacoma, USA

  Kenric W. Hammond

• Missouri Institute of Mental Health, University of Missouri—Columbia, St. Loius, USA

  Matthew G. Hile

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