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I. Introducing a New Instrument for Rating Observed Behaviour∗ and the Rationale of the Psychological Impairment Concept

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Hugo Biehl
Affiliation:
Disability Research Unit, Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim, Germany
Kurt Maurer
Affiliation:
Disability Research Unit, Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim, Germany
Assen Jablensky
Affiliation:
WHO Collaborating Centre of Mental Health, Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria
John E. Cooper
Affiliation:
Queen's Medical Centre, and Mapperley Hospital, University of Nottingham, UK
Toma Tomov
Affiliation:
Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria

Extract

Based on the experience with the International Pilot Study on Schizophrenia (IPSS) (WHO 1973, 1979), the WHO Division of Mental Health and Centres in Sofia, Groningen and Mannheim, joined by expertise from Nottingham and Zurich, conceived a prospective study to assess the ‘natural history’ (Ciompi, 1980a, b; Watt et al, 1983; Biehl, 1987) of psychological impairments and social disabilities in patients with functional psychosis in different socio-cultural environments (Jablensky et al 1980).

Type
The WHO Psychological Impairments Rating Schedule (WHO/PIRS)
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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