Editors:
- Redefines the concept of quality of life in schizophrenia as a bio-psycho-social construct to provide the reader with a novel contextual understanding
- Examines the rapid advances in electronic technology as new approaches for assessment of patient-centered outcomes to update the reader on new techniques
- Critically reviews measurement tools and introduces new and modern approaches for scale development
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basic and Conceptual Issues
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Methodological Issues
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Beyond Assessment of Quality of Life in Schizophrenia
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Reinventing Quality of Life in Schizophrenia
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About this book
Internationally renowned experts from different scientific backgrounds and scopes of expertise each make arguments for the need to invigorate quality of life as a concept in schizophrenia, by broadening its usefulness for clinical and research efforts. The book represents an important addition to the extensive contributions of its editors, Dr. A. George Awad and Dr. Lakshmi N.P. Voruganti, to the field of quality of life.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
A. George Awad
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Lakshmi N.P. Voruganti
About the editors
Dr. A. George Awad is a professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Canada. Until recently, Dr. Awad served as the Founding President of the International Society of CNS Clinical Trials Methodology, and also as the Psychiatrist-in-Chief of Humber River Hospital, in Toronto. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology Medal for meritorious contributions to neuropsychopharmacology, the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Award for distinguished researcher in schizophrenia, and, recently, the Andrew C. Leon Distinguished Career Award in CNS clinical trial methodology and neurosciences. Over his forty-five years of academic and research contributions, Dr. Awad dedicated his research focus on the “person” behind the illness and the outcomes that matter most to the patient.
Dr. Lakshmi N.P. Voruganti joined Dr. Awad as both a Master’s and PhD candidate, and made significant contributions exploring and extending Dr. Awad’s early research contributions, particularly in the area of neurobiology of subjective tolerability to antipsychotic medications. After gaining his PhD degree, he pursued an independent clinical research career as an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada and, later, at McMaster’s University in Hamilton, Ontario. At present, he is a practicing psychiatrist at Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond Assessment of Quality of Life in Schizophrenia
Editors: A. George Awad, Lakshmi N.P. Voruganti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30061-0
Publisher: Adis Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30059-7Published: 27 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80715-7Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30061-0Published: 14 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 224
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour