Goldberg test may refer to any of various psychiatric tests used to assess

mental health Mental health is often mistakenly equated with the absence of mental illness. However, mental health refers to a person's overall emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It influences how individuals think, feel, and behave, and how t ...

in general or as screening tools for specific mental disorders e.g. depression or

bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder (BD), previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of Depression (mood), depression and periods of abnormally elevated Mood (psychology), mood that each last from days to weeks, and in ...

. Goldberg, after whom some psychiatric tests are named, might be one of two psychiatrists who share the same last name: Ivan Goldberg, an American psychiatrist, and Sir David Goldberg, a British psychiatrist. Psychiatric screening tests generally don't substitute getting help from professionals. __TOC__

Tests developed by Ivan K. Goldberg

* Goldberg Depression Test is an 18-question screening tool for depression. * Goldberg Mania Scale is an 18-question screening test for

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Tests developed by Sir David Goldberg

* General Health Questionnaire or Goldberg Health Questionnaire (GHQ) developed in 1972 in its initial format as a 60-question test (GHQ-60) with a four-point scale for each question. It is used to measure the risk of developing psychiatric disorders. Other forms of GHQ are: GHQ-30, GHQ-28 and GHQ-12. * Together with Simpson, they developed Personal Health Questionnaire (PHQ) in 1995. It is a 10-question screening instrument for depression. It should not be confused with the 9-question ''

patient health questionnaire The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) is a multiple-choice self-report inventory that is used as a screening and diagnostic tool for mental health disorders of depression, anxiety, alcohol, eating, and somatoform disorders. It is the self-rep ...

'' (PHQ-9) developed by Spitzer also to quantify the risk for depression. Personal Health Questionnaire is sometimes abbreviated as PHQ-G to differentiate it from PHQ-9.

References

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