Heinz Katschnig / Hugh Freeman / Norman Sartorius (Hgg.)

Quality of Life in Mental Disorders

Ed. by Heinz Katschnig, Hugh Freeman a. Norman N. Sartorius

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When assessing "quality of life" in persons suffering from mental disorders, three dimensions have to be distinguished: subjective well-being and satisfaction; objective functioning in social roles; and environmental circumstances. Each chapter in the book takes this multidimensional approach into account. This area cuts across several complementary subject areas from psychiatry to pharmacosafety and vigilance to health economics and health policy.

---

Over the past decade, quality of life issues ahve become a key factor in the management od patients with mental disorders as well as in planning mental health care provision.

Quality of life in menbtal disorders 2nd edition covers the entire spectrum of quality of life issues faced by mental health practitioners, including:
_ Assessment and measurement of QoL
_ QoL in specific mental health disorders
_ Treatment and clinical management issues
_ QoL and health policy, planning and health economics

New chapters in the second edition:
_ Recent developments in the measurement of QoL
_ QoL and substance abuse
_ QoL in pharmacological trials
_ QoL in mental health services research
_ QoL and the promotion of mental health

Quality of life in mental health disorders 2nd edition is relevant to everyone involved in mental health care, including psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, policy-makers and health economists.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 173mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9780470856017
• ISBN-10: 0470856017
• Artikelnr.: 12957802

Autorenporträt

Heinz Katschnig, MD Professor of Psychiatry, Chairman Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Vienna, Austria Hugh Freeman Honorary Visiting Fellow, Green College, Oxford Norman Sartorius Professor of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors. Prefcae to the First Edition. Preface to the Second
Edition. Section I: Introduction. 1. How useful is the concept of quality
of life in psychiatry? Heinz Katschnig. Section II: Conecptual Issues. 2.
Theoretical models of quality of life for mental disorders Matthias C.
Angermeyer and Reinhold Kilian. 3. Well-being and life satisfaction as
components of quality of life in mental disorders Anastasia Zissi and
Margaret M. Barry. 4. Role functioning as a component of quality of life in
mental disorders Durk Wiersma. 5. 'Standard of living' and environmental
factors as a component of quality of life in mental disorders Hugh L.
Freeman. Section III: Assessment and Measurement. 6. Instruments for
measuring quality of life in mental disorders I: up to 1996 Anthony F.
Lehman. 7. Instruments for measuring quality of life in mental disorders
II: Some new developments Chijs Van Nieuwenhuizen. 8. Assessing daily
quality of life with the experience sampling method Daniela Q.C.M.
Barge-Schaapveld, Nancy A. Nicolson, Philippe A.E.G. Delespaul and Marten
W. deVries. 9. Quality of life and positive health: Thwir place in
comprehensive clinical diagnosis Juan E. Mezzich and Margit M. Schmilke.
10. Quality of life measurement in persons with schizophenia: We are
measuring whats important? Marion A. Becker and Ronald J. Diamond. Section
IV: Quality of life in specific mental disorders. 11. Quality of life in
drepression Heinz Katsching, Monika Krautgartner, Beate Schrank and
Matthias C. Angermeyer. 12. Quality of life in anxiety disorders Franklin
R. Schmeirer and Gabriel Pantol. 13. Quality of life in schitzophrenia
Julio Bobes and Maria Paz Garcia-Portilla. 14. Quality of life and child
hood disorders Klaus Schmeck and Fritz Poustka. 15. Quality of life in
alzheimer's and related dimentias Barry Gurland and Sidney Katz. 16.
Quality of life in substance use disorder Jason P. Connor, John B. Saunders
and Gerald F.X. Feeney. Section V: Treatment and Management Issues. 17.
Psychotropic medication and quality of life Matthias C. Angermeyer,
Reinhold Kilian and Heinz Katschnig. 18. 'Real World' trials of
psychotropic medication T. Scott Stroup and Jeffrey A. Lieberman. 19.
Psychotherapy and quality of life Gerhard Lenz and Ulrike Demal. 20. Whose
life is it anyway? Quality of life for long-stay patients discharged from
psychiatric hostpitals Julian Leff. 21. Quality of llife in mental haelth
service research Antonio Lasalvia and Mirella Ruggeri. 22. The Quality of
life of the relatives of the mentally ill Maria D. Simon. 23. Consumer
interests and the qulaity of life concept - common ground or parallel
universes? Peter Stastny and Michaela Amering. 24. Quality of life of staff
working in Psychiatric services Reinhold Kilian. Section VI: Policy and
Planning. 25. Quality of life measurment in the economic analysis of mental
health care Dan Chisholm, Luis Salvador-Carulla and Jose Luis Auyso-Mateos.
26. Organisation of care and quality of life of persons with serious and
persistent mental illness David Mechanic. 27. Quality of life and mental
disorders: A global perspective Norman Sartorious. Section VII: Outlook on
the Future. 28 Improving quality of life through mental health promotion
Eva Jané-Llopis and Heinz Katsching. Index.

Rezensionen

"...a valuable contribution to the literature...[that]takes the reader one step further than a simple review of qualityof life in mental disorders." ( The Annals ofPharmacotherapy , June 2006)
"The book is written in a very practical, user-friendly format,differentiating it from other books in this category." ( Doody sHealth Services )