1st Edition

Evidence in Mental Health Care

By Stefan Priebe, Mike Slade Copyright 2002
288 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Mental health care increasingly faces a challenge to be 'evidence based'. However, despite much policy activity in the UK, it's still not clear what sort of evidence researchers should be producing for mental health services, or what purchasers should be looking for. Evidence in Mental Health Care evaluates a range of different research methodologies and types of 'evidence', and includes: * a... Read more
Knowledge in the Human Sciences. Evidence in Mental Health - A Historical Analysis. Influence of Evidence on Mental Health Care over the Last 200 Years. The Influence of Evidence on Mental Health Care Developments in the UK Since 1980. The Influence and Role of Evident in the US. Evidence - The Postmodern Perspective. Randomised Controlled Trials - Misunderstanding, Fraud and Spin. Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis. Mental Health Service Research. Conceptual RCT Limitations. The Role of Qualitative Research Methods in Evidence Based Mental Health Care. Studying Psychiatric Practice without P-values. What is the Place of Anthropological Inquiry? Individual Case Studies. Applying the Evidence - Pharmocotherapy. The Outcome of Psychoanalysis. Applying the Evidence in Psychological Therapies. Evidence in Social Care - The Policy Context. The User/Survivor Perspective - What's Behind The ? The Policy Perspective - What Evidence in Influential? - The Researcher Perspective - Which Evidence Can Be Delivered? - Evidence in the 21st Century - The Way Forward.

Biography

Stefan Priebe is Chair of Social and Community Psychiatry at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Mike Slade is Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.