Measuring Mental Health Needs

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• Contents; Contributors; Foreword Sir Douglas Black; Preface Graham Thornicroft; Part I. Definitions and Targets for Needs Assessment: 1. Defining mental health needs John Wing, Chris R. Brewin and Graham Thornicroft; 2. Health targets Rachel Jenkins and Bruce Singh; Part II. Measuring Population Needs: 3. Population surveys of morbidity and need Rachel Jenkins and Howard Meltzer; 4. Commissioners' information requirements on mental health needs and commissioning for mental health services Andrew Stevens, James Raftery and Richard A. Mendelsohn; 5. Measuring (relative) need for mental health care services Roy Carr-Hill; 6. Assessing demand for care at district level using a psychiatric case register Mirella Ruggeri, Francesco Amaddeo and Michele Tansella; 7. 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: 8. Setting priorities during the development of local psychiatric services Elaine Murphy; 9. The Care Programme Approach: prioritising according to need in policy and practice Jonathan Bindman and Gyles Glover; 10. Local catchment areas for needs-led mental health services Geraldine Strathdee and Graham Thornicroft; 11. Needs from a user perspective Marion Beeforth and Helen Wood; 12. Costing psychiatric interventions Jennifer Beecham and Martin Knapp; Part IV. Evaluating the Ability of Psychiatric Services to Meet Needs: 13. Assessing systems of care for the long-term mentally ill in urban settings M. Susan Ridgely, Howard H. Goldman and Joseph P. Morrissey; 14. Auditing the use of psychiatric beds Bernard Audini and Richard Duffett; Part V. Methods for Assessing Individual Needs: 15. The Cardinal Needs Schedule: a standardised research instrument for measuring individual needs Austin Lockwood and Max Marshall; 16. Measuring individual needs for care and services Chris R. Brewin; 17. The Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) Mike Slade and Paul McCrone; Part VI. Needs of Special Groups: 18. Mental health services for homeless people William R. Breakey, Ezra Susser and Philip Timms; 19. Needs of carers Elizabeth Kuipers; 20. Mental health needs of children and young people Robert Jezzard; 21. Measurement of needs in people with learning disabilities and mental health problems Kiriakos Xenitidis and Nick Bouras; 22. Needs assessment in mental health care for older people Tom Reynolds and Martin Orrell; 23. Mental health needs in primary care Andre Tylee; 24. Mental health needs assessment for ethnic and cultural minorities Kamaldeep Bhui; 25. Needs assessment for rural mental health services Alain Gregoire; 26. Needs assessment and drug misuse services John Marsden and John Strang; 27. Needs assessment and eating disorders Janet Treasure and Ulrike Schmidt; 28. Needs assessment and alcohol E. Jane Marshall; Index.