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The Assessment of Psychiatric Disability in the Community a Comparison of Clinical, Staff, and Family Interviews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

C. R. Brewin ,
F. Veltro ,
J. K. Wing ,
B. MacCarthy  and
T. S. Brugha
C. R. Brewin*
Affiliation:
MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, DeCrespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
F. Veltro
Affiliation:
First Medical School, Institute of Psychiatry, University of Naples
J. K. Wing
Affiliation:
MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit
B. MacCarthy
Affiliation:
Academic Unit, St Bernard's Wing, Ealing Hospital and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
T. S. Brugha
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leicester
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Assessments of some of the symptoms and behaviour problems of long-term psychiatric patients living in the community were obtained independently from clinical interviews with such patients, and from interviews with day staff, residential staff and families caring for them. In general, interviews with residential staff and family members revealed much higher levels of symptoms and behaviour problems than either of the other two interviews. These findings have implications for research and clinical practice including the fact that adequate assessments should include the testimony of family or residential staff.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 5 , November 1990 , pp. 671 - 674
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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