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: Received: 15 December 2016 / Approved: 16 December 2016 / Online: 16 December 2016 (07:57:02 CET)
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Morgan, J.H. Depression Measurement Instruments: An Overview of the Top Depression Rating Scales. Preprints2016, 2016120083. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201612.0083.v1.
Morgan, J.H. Depression Measurement Instruments: An Overview of the Top Depression Rating Scales. Preprints 2016, 2016120083. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201612.0083.v1.
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Morgan, J.H. Depression Measurement Instruments: An Overview of the Top Depression Rating Scales. Preprints2016, 2016120083. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201612.0083.v1.
Morgan, J.H. Depression Measurement Instruments: An Overview of the Top Depression Rating Scales. Preprints 2016, 2016120083. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201612.0083.v1.
Abstract
The range of rating instruments in depression measurement and the depth of their analytical relevance constitutes a major development in this psychiatric and psychotherapeutic field of mental health. Though the competition is acute amongst these various instruments, the results for the public have been outstandingly positive. A depression rating scale is essentially a psychiatric measuring instrument utilized in the identification and ranking of depression severity within the patient. The scale provides the practitioner, psychiatrist or psychotherapist, with sufficient information to assess the severity of the depression plotted on the scale. Not used as a “diagnostic tool” itself, nevertheless, the depression rating scale does function as an effective device for designating and assigning a behavioral score which may, then, be used in establishing the severity of depression of value in the designation of a diagnosis and treatment formula. In this paper, we will take a close look at the leading depression rating scales and briefly summarize their scope of assessment value in rating depression.
Keywords
depression; measurement scale; ratings; literature review
Subject
SOCIAL SCIENCES, Sociology
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
