Purpose and History of Rating Scales in Psychiatry -- What Rating Scales Measure -- The Psychiatric Interview and Application of Rating Scales -- Specific Rating Scale Types -- Statistical Evaluation of Outcome Data -- Vignettes Demonstrating the Use of Rating Scales -- Clinical Vignette With Depressed Patient -- Evaluation of a New Antidepressant by a Drug Company -- Rating Scales -- Diagnostic Scales in Psychiatry -- Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) -- Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) -- Mini International Neuropsychiatric Inventory (MINI) -- Present State Examination -- Ninth Edition (PSE-9) -- Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD) -- Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS) -- Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN) -- Structured Clinical Interview for Axis I DSM-IV Disorders (SCID) -- Anxiety Rating Scales -- General Anxiety -- Covi Anxiety Scale -- Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAM-A) -- Sheehan Disability Scale -- State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) -- Phobias/Social Anxiety -- Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (Brief-FNE) -- Fear Questionnaire (FQ) -- Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) -- Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI) -- Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms -- Leyton Obsessional Inventory (LOI) -- Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) -- Panic Disorder -- Acute Panic Inventory (API) -- Sheehan Patient-Rated Anxiety Scale (SPRAS) -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)