Instruments

The DPU provides training and quality assurance on the following instruments:

Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders
First, Michael B., Spitzer, Robert L., Gibbon, Miriam, and Williams, Janet B.W. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders - Patient Edition (SCID-I/P, Version 2.0, 4/97 revision)
Biometrics Research Department
New York State Psychiatric Institute
722 West 168th Street
New York, New York  10032

Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), Expanded Version
Ventura, J., Lukoff, D., Nuechterlein, K.H., Liberman, R.P., Green, M.F., Shaner, A.  (1993).  Manual for the Expanded Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale.   International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research.

Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS)
Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D. (1984)
Department of Psychiatry
College of Medicine
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa  52242

More information on these instruments and the DPU training and quality assurance programs will be available here soon.