The AMDP System: Manual for Assessment and Documentation of Psychopathology in Psychiatry. Este artículo no está disponible.The AMDP System: Manual for Assessment and Documentation of Psychopathology in Psychiatry

Now in its 9th edition, the AMDP System is a widely used tool for documenting psychiatric findings in clinical and research projects. It is not only an essential part of many internal clinical documentation systems, but it is also a valuable instrument for training the identification of psychopathological symptoms. This new edition, now in English, involved the complete revision of the psychopathology and somatic symptom items, with particular attention to the elimination of ambiguities and inconsistencies, to the precision of definitions, to the exact differentiation of the self and other ratings, as well as to the user friendliness of the system. Taking account of developments in recent years in the description and rating of psychopathological symptoms, this latest edition of the AMDP System has been extended by an additional eleven psychopathological and three somatic symptoms and a new section on syndrome formation in the appendix. This clearly structured manual enables the standardized application of the system, making it an invaluable tool in the training of medical and psychology students and an essential reference volume in the psychiatric field.

Matthew R. Broome, PhD, MRCPsych, is Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health and Director at the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, UK; Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK. Matthew is a founding member of the Maudsley Philosophy Group. Ronald Bottlender, MD, PhD, is the Clinical Director, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Märkische Kliniken, Lüdenscheid, Germany, assistant professor, University of Bochum and lecturer, University of Bonn, Germany. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed articles on psychosis, affective disorders, amongst others. Michael Rösler, MD, PhD, is the Head of the Institute of forensic Psychiatry, Homburg/Saarland, Germany, and Emeritus Professor at the University of the Saarland, Germany. During the last decades he has been engaged in adult ADHD research. He is the current Chair of the Association of Methodology and Documentation in Psychiatry (AMDP). Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry and the Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Basel, Switzerland. He has published more than 600 papers and books, especially in the field of psychopathology and clinical assessment. He was previously the Chair of the AMDP 2006–2012.