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Global Assessment of Functioning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Global Assessment of Functioning ( GAF ) is a numeric scale (0 through 100) used by mental health clinicians and physicians to subjectively rate the social, occupational and psychological func...
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Abnormal psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abnormal psychology is an academic and applied subfield of psychology involving the scientific study of abnormal experience and behavior (as in neuroses, psychoses and mental retardation) or with cer...
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The scale was designed to quantify patient functional levels more systematically than the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)(APA, 1994) and provides for the systematic rating of functional deficits in critical areas of that could not otherwise be assessed in this population.
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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the validity of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) when routinely used in clinical work by focusing on the relations between the GAF, other axes in the DSM system, and some demographic variables conceptually derived on theoretical and clinical grounds.
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OBJECTIVES: The Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF) and the Impairment-Score (IS) are important instruments for Quality Assessment. There are only few studies examining the quality of statistical power of the GAF-Scale indicating problems in construct validity and no larger studies for the IS.
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OBJECTIVE: This study examined the reliability and convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC) version of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale.
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DSM-IV Multiaxial System Axis V. ... Global Assessment of Functioning is for reporting the clinician's judgment of the individual's overall level of functioning and carrying out activities of daily living. This information is useful in planning treatment and measuring its impact, and in predicting outcome.
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