Psychiatric assessment and psychopathology

The interview, mental status exam, signs and symptoms, classification, and assessing children and older adults.

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Technique

• Assessing children and adolescents in mental healthHow to assess a child's or teenager's mental health: several informants, development in mind…
• Assessing older adults in mental healthIn older adults, first rule out delirium and medical causes, then look for depression, dementia…
• The mental status examinationA structured description of how a person looks, behaves, speaks, feels, thinks and perceives…
• The psychiatric interviewA structured conversation that gathers the psychiatric history, checks safety and builds the…

Concept

• Classifying mental disorders: DSM-5-TR and ICD-11The two manuals that define mental disorders, how they differ, and what is needed before a…
• Psychopathology: affect, mood, consciousness and memoryThe words used to describe emotions, alertness, attention and memory problems, and what each one…
• Psychopathology: perception and thought (hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder)The exact words for false perceptions, false beliefs and disordered thinking, and what each one…

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Educational content on behavior and the clinical relationship; not a diagnostic or treatment guide and no substitute for assessment by a health professional. If you or someone near you is at risk, seek help now from an emergency service or a mental-health helpline.

Representative model, for educational purposes only.