Evidence in Mental Health Care

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Figures viii
• Boxes ix
• Tables x
• Foreword xiii
• Preface xvii
• Section 1 - Context 1
• Chapter 1 - Knowledge in the Human Sciences 3
• Chapter 2 - Evidence in Mental Health: a Historical Analysis 11
• Chapter 3 - Influence of Evidence on Mental Health Care Over the Last 200 Years 21
• Chapter 4 - The Influence of Evidence on Mental Health Care Developments in the Uk Since 1980 28
• Chapter 5 - The Influence and Role of Evidence in the United States 40
• Chapter 6 - Evidence—the Postmodern Perspective 53
• Section 2 - Methodological Approaches 57
• Chapter 7 - Randomised Controlled Trials—misunderstanding, Fraud and Spin 59

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Figures viii
• Boxes ix
• Tables x
• Foreword xiii
• Preface xvii
• Section 1 - Context 1
• Chapter 1 - Knowledge in the Human Sciences 3
• Chapter 2 - Evidence in Mental Health: a Historical Analysis 11
• Chapter 3 - Influence of Evidence on Mental Health Care Over the Last 200 Years 21
• Chapter 4 - The Influence of Evidence on Mental Health Care Developments in the Uk Since 1980 28
• Chapter 5 - The Influence and Role of Evidence in the United States 40
• Chapter 6 - Evidence—the Postmodern Perspective 53
• Section 2 - Methodological Approaches 57
• Chapter 7 - Randomised Controlled Trials—misunderstanding, Fraud and Spin 59
• Chapter 8 - Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses 72
• Chapter 9 - Mental Health Services Research 81
• Chapter 10 - Conceptual Limitations of Randomised Controlled Trials 101
• Chapter 11 - The Role of Qualitative Research Methods in Evidence-Based Mental Health Care 109
• Chapter 12 - Studying Psychiatric Practice Without P Values: What is the Place of Anthropological Inquiry? 126
• Chapter 13 - Individual Case Studies 142
• Section 3 - Applying the Evidence 159
• Chapter 14 - Applying the Evidence: Pharmacotherapies 161
• Chapter 15 - The Outcome of Psychoanalysis: the Hope for the Future 177
• Chapter 16 - Applying the Evidence in Psychological Therapies 186
• Chapter 17 - Evidence in Social Care: the Policy Context 193
• Section 4 - The Way Forward 205
• Chapter 18 - A User/Survivor Perspective: What’s Behind the Evidence? 207
• Chapter 19 - The Policy Perspective: What Evidence is Influential? 215
• Chapter 20 - The Researcher’s Perspective: Which Type of Evidence Can Be Delivered? 226
• Chapter 21 - Evidence in the Twenty-First Century: the Way Forward 229
• References 235