Clinical Pathways Resource Guide - CEIC
Clinical Pathways Resource Guide - CEIC
Clinical Pathways Resource Guide - CEIC
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The Mental Health Screening Form-III Form III<br />
(MHSF-III)<br />
(MHSF III)<br />
�� The Mental Health Screening Form-III Form III (MHSF-III) (MHSF III) has only 18 simple questions and is<br />
designed to screen for present or past symptoms of most of the main main<br />
mental disorders<br />
(Carroll and McGinley 2001).<br />
�� It is available to the public at no charge from the Project Return Return<br />
Foundation, Inc.<br />
�� The MHSF-III MHSF III was developed within a substance abuse treatment setting and it has<br />
face validity—that validity that is, if a knowledgeable diagnostician reads each item, it seems seems<br />
clear<br />
that a “yes yes” answer to that item would warrant further evaluation of the client client<br />
for the<br />
mental disorder for which the item represents typical symptomatology.<br />
symptomatology.<br />
�� The MHSF-III MHSF III is only a screening device as it asks only one question for each disorder<br />
for which it attempts to screen. If a client answers “no no” because of a misunderstanding<br />
of the question or a momentary lapse in memory or test-taking test taking attitude, the screen<br />
would produce a “false false-negative, negative,” where the client might have the mental disorder but<br />
the screen falsely indicates that the person probably does not have have<br />
the disorder.<br />
�� In a recent article the MHSF-III MHSF III is referred to as a “rough rough screening device” device (Carroll<br />
and McGinley 2001, p. 35), and the authors make suggestions about about<br />
its use,<br />
comments about its limitations, and review favorable validity and and<br />
reliability data.<br />
�� There is no operational manual for the MHSF-III. MHSF III. However, the article has useful<br />
information similar to material usually found in a manual.<br />
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