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| What are the four main types of assessment? |
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1. Clinical Interviews
2. Mental Status Exams
3. Psychological assessments
4. Physiological assessments |
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| The three types of clinical interviews are... |
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| structured, semistructured and unstructured |
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| unstructured vs. structured vs. semistructured clinical interviews |
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unstructured: open-ended questions to determine client's reason for seeking treatment, symptoms, health and background
Structured: standardized ques. and format
Semistructured: standardized ques. without specific format |
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| Structured Clinical interview formats... |
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SCID-I: axis 1 disorders
SCID-II: personality disorders
IPDE: personality disorders |
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| MSE or Mental Health Status Exam is used to... |
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| assess client's behavior and functioning, with particular attention to the symptoms associated with psychological disturbance |
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| The Mental Health Status Exam assesses... |
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| appearance and behavior, orientation, content of thought, thinking style and language, affect and mood, perceptual experiences, sense of self, cognitive functioning, motivation, insight and judgement |
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| Hyperactivity and psychomotor agitation vs... |
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| a person's awareness of time, place and identity |
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| extreme motor disturbances in a psychotic disorder not attributable to physiological causes |
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| When assessing affect in an MSE, what do clinicians evaluate? |
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1. appropriateness
2. range: restricted-normal-expansive
3. intensity: flat-blunted-exxagerated-overdramatic
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| What sre the types of hallucinations, assessed under the perceptual experiences part of the MSE? |
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1. auditory: hearing, command: someone instructed to do something by hallucination
2. visual
3. olfactory: smell
gustatory: taste |
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| A clinician conducting a mental status exam assesses a client's attention, concentration, memory, and capacity for abstraction. Which area of functioning is being examined? |
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