MSE Intro & Illustration

Question 1

What are the components of an MSE

Answer 1

• General appearance and behaviour
• Speech
• Affect
• Mood
• Thought
• Perception
• Cognition
• Judgment
• Insight

Question 2

What do you look for in General appearance and behaviour?

Answer 2

• Build
• Gait
• Clothes
• Motor activity
• Social manner
• Non-verbal communication
• etc.

Question 3

What do you look for in Speech?

Answer 3

• Mechanical production
• Stutters, accent, etc

Question 4

What do you look for in affect and mood?

Answer 4

mood -> how they say they feel

Question 5

What do we look for in thought?

Answer 5

• stream (how fast they think -> measured by how fast they talk)
• form (way thoughts are put together)
• content
• thought alienation (they think there’s someone wrong with their thoughts - thoughts removed or added -> thought insertion, thought withdrawal, thought blocking)

Question 6

What do we look for in perception?

Answer 6

• Hallucinations
• Illusions
• Misinterpretations

Question 7

Comparison of Perceptual Disorders

Answer 7