Effects of contingency management of chronic patients on ward control and behavioral adjustment

Functional Assessment in Rehabilitation

“…Norms were calculated based on a sample of more than 1,000 patients living in several types of institutions, and the MACC has been used in numerous studies comparing the effectiveness of several different types of interventions. Like the NOSIE–30, the MACC has reflected the effects of behavioral interventions such as token economies (Shean and Zeidberg 1971; Bennett and Maley 1973; Rostow and Smith 1975).…”

“…The purpose of this article is to review the assessment instruments that are suitable for measuring the functional living competencies of chronically mentally ill individuals. Excluded from this review are instruments whose primary purpose is to assess psychopathology such as the Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale (Lorr and Klett 1966) and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (Overall and Gorham 1962); instruments whose value is primarily “historical” such as the Normative Social Adjustment Scale (Barrabee, Barrabee, and Finesinger 1955) and the Social Ineffectiveness Scale (Parloff, Kelman, and Frank 1954); instruments that have been constructed for use in a particular treatment setting such as Behavior on Ward Scale (Rostow and Smith 1975); and instruments that provide only global assessments of competencies such as the Strauss-Carpenter Outcome Scale (Strauss and Carpenter 1972) and the Global Assessment Scale (Endicott et al 1976).…”

Social roles and lifetime development in the chronic mentally ill : a study into the reliability and validity of the social role performance and development inventory : an open interview-based lifetime assessment of the social integration of chronic mentally ill

“…We exclude from this review instruments primarily developed to assess psychopathology, such as the 'Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale' (IMPS, Lorr & Klett, 1967), the 'Mental Status Examination record' (MSE, Endicott et al, 1975), the 'Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia', (SADS, Endicott & Spitzer, 1978), the 'Past and Present State Examination' (PPSE, McGuffin et al, 1986), the 'Composit International Diagnostic Interview', (CIDI, Wittchen et al, 1991) and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS, Overall & Gorham, 1962;Dingemans, 1986). We also exclude instruments, constructed for use in a particular treatment setting such as the Behavior on Ward Scale (BWS, Rostow & Smith, 1975)._s w .^u -) t o W9IVS-Î ^n , R i y f F l . 7 A 5.7.…”