Diagnostic Criteria

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
  The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders...
  
  
• ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders
  ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders
  - Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders :* Dementia in Alzheimer's disease* Vascular dementia** Multi-infarct dementia* Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere** Dementia in Pick's disease...
  
  
• Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders
  Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders
  The Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders , published by the Chinese Society of Psychiatry , is a clinical guide used in China for the diagnosis of mental disorders. It is currently on a third version, the CCMD-3, written in Chinese and English...
  
  
• Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC)
  Research Diagnostic Criteria
  The Research Diagnostic Criteria are a collection of psychiatric diagnostic criteria published in late 1970s . As psychiatric diagnoses widely varied especially between the USA and Europe, the purpose of the criteria were allow diagnoses to be consistent in psychiatric research...
  
  
• Feighner Criteria

Interview instruments using the above criteria

• Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID)
  Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV
  The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders is a diagnostic exam used to determine DSM-IV Axis I disorders and Axis II disorders . There are at least 700 published studies in which the SCID was the diagnostic instrument used...
  
  
• Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS)
  Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia
  The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia is a collection of psychiatric diagnostic criteria and symptom rating scales published in 1978. There are three versions of the schedule, the regular SADS, the lifetime version and a version for measuring change in symptomology...
  
  
• Mini-international neuropsychiatric interview (MINI)
  Mini-international neuropsychiatric interview
  The Mini-international neuropsychiatric interview is a short structured clinical interview which enables researchers to make diagnoses of psychiatric disorders according to DSM-IV or ICD-10. The administration time of the interview is approximately 15 minutes and was designed for epidemiological...
  
  
• World Health Organisation Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI)
• Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN)

Depression

• Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression
• Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)
  Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale
  The Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale is a ten-item diagnostic questionnaire which psychiatrists use to measure the severity of depressive episodes in patients with mood disorders...
  
  
• Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
  Beck Depression Inventory
  The Beck Depression Inventory , created by Dr. Aaron T. Beck, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory, one of the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression...
  
  
• Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale
  Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale
  The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale was designed by Duke University psychiatrist Dr. William W.K. Zung to assess the level of depression for patients diagnosed with depressive disorder....
  
  
• Major Depression Inventory
  Major Depression Inventory
  The Major Depression Inventory is a self-report mood questionnaire developed by the World Health Organisation. The instrument was constructed by a team led by Professor Per Bech, a psychiatrist based at Frederiksborg General Hospital in Denmark...
  
  
• Geriatric Depression Scale
  Geriatric Depression Scale
  The Geriatric Depression Scale is a 30-item self-report assessment used to identify depression in the elderly.-Description:The GDS questions are answered "yes" or "no", instead of a five-category response set. This simplicity enables the scale to be used with ill or moderately cognitively impaired...
  
  
• Beck Hopelessness Scale
  Beck Hopelessness Scale
  The Beck Hopelessness Scale is a 20-item self-report inventory developed by Dr. Aaron T. Beck that was designed to measure three major aspects of hopelessness: feelings about the future, loss of motivation, and expectations...
  
  
• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
  Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
  HADS is commonly used by doctors to determine the levels of anxiety and depression that a patient is experiencing. It is a 10 point scale such that if a patient scores the lowest possible value of 1 they are considered to possibly need clinical psychiatric treatment...
  
  
• Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
  Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
  The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale is a 10-item questionnaire that developed to identify women who have PPD. Items of the scale correspond to various clinical depression symptoms, such as guilt feeling, sleep disturbance, low energy, anhedonia, and suicidal ideation...
  
  

Anxiety

• Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale
  Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale
  The Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale was designed by William W. K. Zung, a psychiatrist from Duke University, to quantify a patient's level of anxiety....
  
  
• Beck Anxiety Inventory
  Beck Anxiety Inventory
  The Beck Anxiety Inventory , created by Dr. Aaron T. Beck and other colleagues, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory that is used for measuring the severity of an individual's anxiety.-BAI:...
  
  
• Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale
• Hamilton Anxiety Scale
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7
• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
  Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
  HADS is commonly used by doctors to determine the levels of anxiety and depression that a patient is experiencing. It is a 10 point scale such that if a patient scores the lowest possible value of 1 they are considered to possibly need clinical psychiatric treatment...
  
  
• Social Phobia Inventory
  Social Phobia Inventory
  Social Phobia Inventory abbreviated as is a questionnaire developed by the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Duke University for screening and measuring severity of social anxiety disorder. This self-reported assessment scale consists of 17 items, which cover the main spectrum of...
  
  
• Panic and Agoraphobia Scale
  Panic and Agoraphobia Scale
  The Panic and Agoraphobia Scale is a rating scale developed for measuring severity of agoraphobia with or without panic attacks. The PAS scale contains 13 questions based on a five point Litkert scale...
  
  
• Panic Disorder Severity Scale
  Panic Disorder Severity Scale
  The Panic Disorder Severity Scale is a questionnaire developed for measuring severity of panic disorder. The clinician-administered PDSS is intended to assess severity and considered a reliable tool for monitoring of treatment outcome...
  
  
• PTSD Symptom Scale – Self-Report Version
  PTSD Symptom Scale – Self-Report Version
  PTSD Symptom Scale – Self-Report Version is a 17-item self-reported questionnaire to assess symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. Each of the 17 items describe PTSD symptoms which respondents rate in terms of their frequency or severity using a Likert-type scale ranging from 0 to 3...
  
  
• Trauma Screening Questionnaire
  Trauma Screening Questionnaire
  Trauma Screening Questionnaire abbreviated as is a questionnaire developed for screening of posttraumatic stress disorder. The TSQ was adapted from the PTSD Symptom Scale – Self-Report Version . This self-reported assessment scale consists of 10 items, which cover one of the main signs of PTSD....
  
  

Psychosis

• Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)
  Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
  The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale is rating scale which a clinician or researcher may use to measure psychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety, hallucinations and unusual behaviour...
  
  
• Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)

Mania

• Young Mania Rating Scale
  Young Mania Rating Scale
  The Young Mania Rating Scale is an eleven-item, multiple-choice diagnostic questionnaire which psychiatrists use to measure the severity of manic episodes in patients...
  
  
• Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale
  Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale
  The Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale is an five-item self-reported diagnostic scale to assess the level of mania and hypomania symptoms for patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder...
  
  

Eating Disorders

• Anorectic Behavior Observation Scale
  Anorectic Behavior Observation Scale
  The Anorectic Behavior Observation Scale is a thirty-item diagnostic questionnaire devised to be answered by the parents, spouse or other family member of an individual suspected of having an eating disorder. It was developed by Vandereyken et al. in 1992. The questions address three factors;...
  
  
• Binge Eating Scale
  Binge Eating Scale
  The Binge Eating Scale is a sixteen item questionnaire used to assess the presence of binge eating behavior indicative of an eating disorder. It was devised by J. Gormally et al. in 1982 specifically for use with obese individuals. The questions are based upon both behavioral characteristics and...
  
  
• Eating Attitudes Test
  Eating Attitudes Test
  The Eating Attitudes Test is a widely used standardized self-report measure of symptoms and concerns characteristic of eating disorders and is more fully described on the EAT-26.com website...
  
  
• Eating Disorder Inventory
  Eating Disorder Inventory
  The Eating Disorder Inventory is a self-report questionnaire used to assess the presence of eating disorders, Anorexia Nervosa both restricting and binge-eating/purging type; Bulimia Nervosa; and Eating disorder not otherwise specified including Binge Eating Disorder...
  
  

Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

• Mini-mental state examination
  Mini-mental state examination
  The mini–mental state examination or Folstein test is a brief 30-point questionnaire test that is used to screen for cognitive impairment. It is commonly used in medicine to screen for dementia...
  
  
• Clinical Dementia Rating
  Clinical Dementia Rating
  The Clinical Dementia Rating or CDR is a numeric scale used to quantify the severity of symptoms of dementia .Using a structured-interview protocol developed by John C...
  
  
• Abbreviated mental test score
  Abbreviated mental test score
  The abbreviated mental test score was introduced by Hodkinson in 1972 to rapidly assess elderly patients for the possibility of dementia. Its uses in medicine have become somewhat wider, e.g. to assess for confusion and other cognitive impairment, although it has mainly been validated in the...
  
  
• General Practitioner Assessment Of Cognition
  General Practitioner Assessment Of Cognition
  The General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition is a brief screening test for cognitive impairment introduced by Brodaty et al. in 2002. It was specifically developed for the use in the primary care setting.- The test :...
  
  
• Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly
  Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly
  The Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly is a questionnaire that can be filled out by a relative or other supporter of an older person to determine whether that person has declined in cognitive functioning. The IQCODE is used as a screening test for dementia...
  
  

Global Scales

• Clinical Global Impression
  Clinical Global Impression
  The Clinical Global Impression rating scales are commonly used measures of symptom severity, treatment response and the efficacy of treatments in treatment studies of patients with mental disorders...
  
  
• Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS)
  Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale
  The Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale is a scale for rating the severity of psychiatric symptoms and observed behaviour. CPRS was developed by Swedish psychiatrists Marie Åsberg, Carlo Perris, Daisy Schalling, and Göran Sedvall in collaboration with the British psychiatrist, Stuart...
  
  
• Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)
  Global Assessment of Functioning
  The Global Assessment of Functioning is a numeric scale used by mental health clinicians and physicians to subjectively rate the social, occupational, and psychological functioning of adults, e.g., how well or adaptively one is meeting various problems-in-living. The scale is presented and...
  
  
• Children's Global Assessment Scale
  Children's Global Assessment Scale
  The Children's Global Assessment Scale is a numeric scale used by mental health clinicians and doctors to rate the general functioning of children under the age of 18.-Application:...
  
  

Other

• Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale
  Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale
  The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale Symptom Checklist is a self-reported questionnaire used to assist in the diagnosis of adult ADHD.-Background:...
  
  
• Barnes Akathisia Scale
  Barnes Akathisia Scale
  The Barnes Akathisia Scale is a rating scale that is administered by physicians to assess the severity of drug-induced akathisia. The Barnes Akathisia Scale is the most widely used rating scale for akathisia. This scale includes objective and subjective items such as the level of the patient's...
  
  
• Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire
  Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire
  The Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire was designed Arnold Buss and Mark Perry, professors from the University of Texas at Austin in a 1992 article for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology...
  
  
• Hare Psychopathy Checklist
  Hare Psychopathy Checklist
  In contemporary research and clinical practice, Robert D. Hare's Psychopathy Checklist-Revised is the psycho-diagnostic tool most commonly used to assess psychopathy...
  
  
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is one of the most frequently used personality tests in mental health. The test is used by trained professionals to assist in identifying personality structure and psychopathology....
  
  
• Narcissistic Personality Inventory
  Narcissistic Personality Inventory
  The Narcissistic Personality Inventory is the most widely used measure of narcissism in social psychological research. Although several versions of the NPI have been proposed in the literature, a forty-item forced-choice version is the one most commonly employed in current research...