Measuring Mental Health Needs (Second edition)
Edited by
Graham Thornicroft
What are needs for mental health
services, and how can they be measured? This book describes clearly
the different approaches that can be taken to these vital
questions.
This completely revised version of
the successful first edition provides professional, managerial and
research staff in health and social care with all they need to
understand and to put into practice the assessment of need in
mental health.
Features:
- Up-to-the-minute reviews
- Whole range of specialities are covered within the book
- Conceptual and practical coverage of needs assessment
"The text is an authoritative guide to
this complex but important area. Thornicroft has done a sterling
job in compiling the contribution of some 50 authors. … It serves
as a reference for general psychiatrists and other mental health
professionals. For those interested in population mental health,
service reform, and planning and special groups, it is a
particularly valuable resource.”
Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Psychiatry
“The precise title of this book does injustice to its contents. It
covers much more than the mere measurement of needs and it will be
a valuable reference manual for a wide variety of professionals in
mental health… The editor has managed to capture the extensive and
at times confusing knowledge base in this field and present it in a
comprehensive yet concise manual.”
Psychological Medicine
Contents
Contributors
Foreword Sir Douglas
Black
Preface Graham
Thornicroft
Part I
Definitions and targets for needs assessment
Defining mental health needs -
John Wing, Chris R. Brewin and Graham Thornicroft
Health targets - Rachel Jenkins and Bruce Singh
Part II Measuring
population needs
Population surveys of morbidity and
need -Rachel Jenkins and Howard Meltzer
Commissioners’ information requirements on mental health needs and
commissioning for mental health services - Andrew
Stevens, James Raftery and Richard A. Mendelsohn
Measuring (relative) need for mental health care services - Roy
Carr-Hill
Assessing demand for care at district level using a psychiatric
case register - Mirella Ruggeri, Francesco Amaddeo and Michele
Tansella
Assessing the need for psychiatric services at district level:
using the results of community surveys - Paul Bebbington and
Sian Rees
Part III Choosing
among needs: priorities and costs
Setting priorities during the
development of local psychiatric services - Elaine
Murphy
The Care Programme Approach: prioritising according to need in
policy and practice - Jonathan Bindman and Gyles
Glover
Local catchment areas for needs-led mental health services -
Geraldine Strathdee and Graham Thornicroft
Needs from
a user perspective - Marion Beeforth and Helen Wood
Costing psychiatric interventions - Jennifer Beecham and Martin
Knapp
Part IV Evaluating the
ability of psychiatric services to meet needs
Assessing systems of care for the
long-term mentally ill in urban settings - M. Susan Ridgely,
Howard H. Goldman and Joseph P. Morrissey
Auditing the use of psychiatric beds - Bernard Audini and
Richard Duffett
Part V Methods for assessing individual
needs
The Cardinal Needs Schedule: a
standardised research instrument for measuring individual needs -
Austin Lockwood and Max Marshall
Measuring individual needs for care and services - Chris R.
Brewin
The Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) - Mike Slade and Paul
McCrone
Part VI Needs of special groups
Mental health services for homeless
people - William R. Breakey, Ezra Susser and Philip
Timms
Needs of carers - Elizabeth Kuipers
Mental health needs of children and young people - Robert
Jezzard
Measurement of needs in people with learning disabilities and
mental health problems - Kiriakos Xenitidis and Nick
Bouras
Needs assessment in mental health care for older people - Tom
Reynolds and Martin Orrell
Mental health needs in primary care - Andre Tylee
Mental health needs assessment for ethnic and cultural minorities -
Kamaldeep Bhui
Needs assessment for rural mental health services - Alain
Gregoire
Needs assessment and drug misuse services - John Marsden and
John Strang
Needs assessment and eating disorders - Janet Treasure and
Ulrike Schmidt
Needs assessment and alcohol - E. Jane Marshall
Index