ABSTRACT
The previous chapters contain references to a number of commercially available psychological measures that might be used in behavioral health care settings for any number of purposes. However, not all of them are generally recommended for regular use in MBHO systems. Matters related to their availability; the cost for their use on an ongoing basis (particularly if the psychologist is not being adequately reimbursed for their use); the time it takes to administer, score, or interpret them; the usefulness of the information they yield for achieving the goals of short-term treatment; lack of widespread professional acceptability; and other factors do not make a number of good, psychometrically sound instruments the best choices for instrumentation for use with patients seen through MBHOs. Based on this author’s knowledge of psychological measures and employment in a large MBHO system, a number of other instruments that were named earlier, as well as some that were not identified, stand out as potentially excellent tools for use by psychologists and other appropriately trained behavioral health care professionals.
