Assessment

Question 1

What things are involved in assessing someone’s mental health?

Answer 1

Holistic approach (tree approach), milieu and setting up the environment, age, language, cultural considerations, review of systems, lab data, mental status exam (MSE), psychosocial assessment, self-awareness, validating the assessment .

Question 2

Analogous to the physical examination in general medicine. Fundamental to overall pt assessment, collects and organizes objective data. The purpose is to evaluate the current cognitive process.

Answer 2

Mental Status Examination (MSE)
Personal information, physical appearance, behavior, speech, affect and mood, thought process/content, perceptual disturbances, cognitive and intellectual abilities.

Question 3

HEADSSS psychosocial interview technique for adolescents?

Answer 3

H: home environment 
E: education and employment
A: activities
D: Drugs, alcohol, tobacco
S: sexuality
S: suicide risk

Question 4

What is what the client says it is?

What is what we see on their face and in the way they carry themselves?

Answer 4

Mood

Affect

Question 5

A pt’s comprehension of the nature and causes of his/her problems. Awareness to recognition that they have an illness.

Answer 5

Insight
The ability to appreciate the benefit of treatment. To recognize and define unusual thoughts and perceptions as signs of illness.

Question 6

Types of voices?

Answer 6

Commentary, accusatory, threatening, command

Question 7

Outcome criteria/goal-setting must be what?

Answer 7

Evidence based, individualized, appropriate, safe

Question 8

What makes up the limbic system, or “emotional brain”?

Answer 8

Hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, hypothalamus