The patient was subjected to psychiatry and neurology evaluation to rule out other causes of headache.
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) [ 3], the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) [ 2, 4] and the Weiss Functional Impairment Rating Scale (WFIRS) [ 3, 5] are commonly used parent/caregiver questionnaires in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry for the evaluation of a child's functioning in daily life.
Patients were assessed by a psychiatrist or resident in psychiatry using the Affective Disorders Evaluation (ADE), which is a standardized protocol adapted from the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program of Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD) [ 20].
The degree to which these therapies have been validated is sometimes limited and, in both psycho-oncology and psychiatry, the question of the evaluation of psychotherapies and psychosocial interventions continues to be a complex subject.
Evaluation was performed by residents in psychiatry using a set of standardized methods of evaluation, after adequate training in use of all instruments adopted.
Barbara Stanley, Ph.D. Prof. of Medical Psychology, Dept. of Psychiatry Dir., Suicide Prevention, Implementation & Evaluation Program, Center for Practice Innovations at Columbia Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute.
This study utilized data gathered by the EUNOMIA project (European Evaluation of Coercion in Psychiatry and Harmonization of Best Clinical Practice).
Psychiatry residents suggested several ways to improve current evaluation methods including self-evaluation, reflection papers, quality improvement projects and interdisciplinary team evaluations [ 8].
Also, especially outside big cities, doctors in the relatively young field of psychiatry are poorly equipped to conduct evaluations and may lack the confidence to defy officials who regard any behavior that deviates from the norm as a sign of mental illness.
We developed a risk assessment procedure for outpatient forensic psychiatry, that is integrated with routine care evaluation by the case manager and client.
