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Mental Health Resource Guides

District of Columbia
Montgomery County, Maryland
Prince George's County, Maryland

Patient Fact Sheets

Antidepressant Education Fact Sheet – English, Español Counseling Education Fact Sheet – English, Español
Depression Fact Sheet – English, Español
NIMH Depression Brochure for Men – English, Español
NIMH PTSD Brochure – English, Español

Information for Clinicians

National Institute of Mental Health PTSD Overview
PTSD: An Overview by the National Center for PTSD
Domestic Violence Overview

Assessment Instruments

PHQ-9 – English, Español
PHQ – English, Español
PTSD Checklist
Stressful Life Events Questionnaire
Trauma History Questionnaire - Original, Short, Español

Assessment Instrument Publications and Information

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PHQ, PHQ-9

Spitzer, R.L ., Kroenke, K ., & Williams J.B . (1999). Validation and utility of a self-report version of PRIME-MD: the PHQ primary care study. Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders. Patient Health Questionnaire. JAMA, 282, 1737-1744.

Spitzer, R.L ., Williams, J.B ., Kroenke, K ., Hornyak, R ., & McMurray, J . (2002). Validity and utility of the PRIME-MD patient health questionnaire in assessment of 3000 obstetric-gynecologic patients: the PRIME-MD Patient Health Questionnaire Obstetrics-Gynecology Study. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 183, 759-769.

Kroenke K , Spitzer RL , Williams JB . (2001). The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16 , 606-613.

Kroenke,K ., Spitzer, R.L ., & Williams, J.B . (2003). The Patient Health Questionnaire-2: Validity of a two-item depression screener. Medical Care, 41, 1284-1292.

PTSD Checklist

Blanchard, E.B., Jones-Alexander, J., Buckley, T.C., & Forneris, C.A. (1996). Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist (PCL). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34, 669-673.

Lang, A.J., & Stein, M.B. (2005). An abbreviated PTSD checklist for use as a screening instrument in primary care. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 585-594.

Stressful Life Events Screening Questionnaire (SLESQ)

Green, B.L., Chung, J.Y., Daroowalla, A., Kaltman, S., & DeBenedictis, C. (2006). Evaluating the cultural validity of the Stressful Life Events Questionnaire. Violence against Women, 12, 1191-1213.

Goodman, L., Corcoran, C., Turner, K., Yuan, N., & Green, B.L. (1998). Assessing traumatic event exposure: General issues and preliminary findings for the Stressful Life Events Screening Questionnaire. Journal of Traumatic Stress , 11 , 521-42.

Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ)

Click for description, tables, and references for this instrument.

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