EDITORIALS
Case management or assertive community treatment: are they really alternative approaches?
Michele Tansella, Mirella Ruggeri

Case management and assertive community treatment. What is the difference?
Tom Burns

What have we learnt from 40 years of research on Intensive Case Management?
Max Marshall

So what shall we do about assertive community treatment?
Sonia Johnson

ABC OF METHODOLOGY
Allocation concealment and blinding in clinical trials
Corrado Barbui, Andrea Cipriani, Michela Nosè

NEUROBIOLOGY OF PSYCHOSIS. CLINICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPLICATIONS
Social cognition, schizophrenia and brain imaging
Paolo Brambilla, Marcella Bellani

SPECIAL ARTICLES
What is this thing called “sad”? A critique of the concept of seasonal affective disorder
Eiliv Lund, Vidje Hansen, Ingunn Skre

Recovery: an international perspective
Michaela Amering, Lindsay Oades, Mike Slade

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Loss to follow-up in longitudinal psychiatric research
Thomas W. Kallert, Stefan Priebe, Tomasz Adamowki, Matthias Schutzwohl, Donna Wright, Joanna Rymaszewska, Petr Nawka, Ladislav Ocvar, Jiri Raboch, Eva Kitzlerova, Tilly Eichler

General Health Questionnaire-12 items: adaptation study to the Portuguese population
Carlos Antonio Laranjeira

L’Outcome Questionnaire 45.2. Adattamento italiano di uno strumento per la valutazione dei trattamenti psicologici
Luca Bensi, Salvatore Gullo, Gianluca Lo Coco, Marco Chiappelli, Claudia Prestano

Residential care: Dutch and Italian residents of residential care facilities compared
Charlotte de Heer-Wunderink, Annemarie D. Caro-Nienhuis, Sjoerd Sytema, Durk Wiersma

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