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Measurement-Based Care (MBC): Advances in the Twenty-First Century

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The dawn of the twenty-first century was marked by the evolution of measurement-based care (MBC) as the new standard of care for patients with mental disorders. Recent research has shown the advantages of using MBC in clinical practice. Chapter 6 reviews the basic properties of scales that can be used in MBC and discusses barriers to implementing MBC in psychiatric practice. Recent technological developments of the twenty-first century that will accelerate the adoption of MBC in clinical practice are reviewed.

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Aboraya, A.S. (2022). Measurement-Based Care (MBC): Advances in the Twenty-First Century. In: Manual for the Standard for Clinicians’ Interview in Psychiatry (SCIP). Advances in Mental Health and Addiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94930-3_6

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