Evidence in Mental Health Care

by Priebe, Stefan; Slade, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780203361306
• ISBN10: 020336130X
• Copyright: 2004-03-09
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This book will prove vital for the successful extension of evidence-based evaluation to mental health services in general.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Context	p. 1
Knowledge in the Human Sciences	p. 3
Evidence in Mental Health: a Historical Analysis	p. 11
Influence of Evidence on Mental Health Care Over the Last 200 Years	p. 21
The Influence of Evidence on Mental Health Care Developments in the Uk Since 1980	p. 28
The Influence and Role of Evidence in the United States	p. 40
Evidence-the Postmodern Perspective	p. 53
Methodological Approaches	p. 57
Randomised Controlled Trials-misunderstanding, Fraud and Spin	p. 59
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses	p. 72
Mental Health Services Research	p. 81
Conceptual Limitations of Randomised Controlled Trials	p. 101
The Role of Qualitative Research Methods in Evidence-Based Mental Health Care	p. 109
Studying Psychiatric Practice Without P Values: What is the Place of Anthropological Inquiry?	p. 126
Individual Case Studies	p. 142
Applying the Evidence	p. 159
Applying the Evidence: Pharmacotherapies	p. 161
The Outcome of Psychoanalysis: the Hope for the Future	p. 177
Applying the Evidence in Psychological Therapies	p. 186
Evidence in Social Care: the Policy Context	p. 193
The Way Forward	p. 205
A User/Survivor Perspective: What's Behind the Evidence?	p. 207
The Policy Perspective: What Evidence is Influential?	p. 215
The Researcher's Perspective: Which Type of Evidence Can Be Delivered?	p. 226
Evidence in the Twenty-First Century: the Way Forward	p. 229
References	p. 235
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