In this book Professor Per Bech sums up the vast experience he has gained during the last
twenty years in the domain of psychopathological measurement techniques: his first paper …

Standardized rating scales are an important tool to improve the assessment of
psychopathological symptoms in terms of validity and reliability. Especially observer-rated …

Clinical Psychometrics is an introduction to the long-term attempt to measure the psychiatric
dimension of dementia, schizophrenia, mania, depression, anxiety, neuroticism …

Very few rating scales have been constructed explicitly for the measurement of change in
psychopathology despite the large number of scales available for the assessment of …

Describes scales developed to quantify psychopathological states (eg, anxiety, depression,
mania, schizophrenia); suggests how they may be effectively used; and discusses rating and …

What are the various methods used to measure psychopathology in terms of rating scales?
A comparison of textbooks on psychopathology with international classification systems of …

From the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) a subscale for
depression has been derived in the course of a study of depression in which 209 patients …

Offers guidelines for the selection of clinical measurement methods in psychiatry. Initial
discussion focuses on the most central methodological problems in clinical psychiatric …

Since its emergence as a medical discipline, and for over a century, psychiatry did not
involve the quantification of psychopathological phenomena. Fine extensive descriptions …

Rating scales are considered to be an efficient instrument in the assessment of treatment
effect, and during the last 25 years a number of rating scales has been constructed for …