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Full name of scale |
Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center Global Assessment of Function |
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Languages |
English |
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Rater |
Clinician-rated |
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Training |
Training required |
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Utility |
Clinical settings (explicitly mentioned)
This measure is designed to assess occupational functioning, social functioning, and symptom severity.
Compared with routine, clinician-administered GAF scores, MIRECC's GAF subscales had better concurrent validity, and can better predict outcomes. |
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Time to complete |
No information found |
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Cost/license |
No information found |
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Full name of scale |
Global Assessment of Functioning |
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Languages |
English |
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Rater |
Mental health professionals |
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Training |
Training course recommended |
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Utility |
It is used in clinical and research settings It is used to determine an individual’s level of psychosocial functioning GAF scored are based on client interviews, questionnaires, medical and legal documents, and information from secondary informants. |
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Versions |
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Time to complete |
5 minutes |
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Cost/license |
Open access |
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Niv, N., Cohen, A. N., Sullivan, G., & Young, A. S. (2007). The MIRECC version of the Global Assessment of Functioning scale: Reliability and validity. Psychiatric Services, 58(4), 529–535. Follow this link for the article.
