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The psychiatric mental status examination / Paula T. Trzepacz, Robert W. Baker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trzepacz, Paula T., author.
- Baker, Robert W., 1958- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental status examination.
- Interviewing in psychiatry.
- Psychodiagnostics.
- Interview, Psychological--methods.
- Mental Disorders--diagnosis.
- Medical Subjects:
- Interview, Psychological--methods.
- Mental Disorders--diagnosis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Designed both for students approaching the US Mental Status Examination (MSE) for the first time and psychiatrists requiring a handy reference, this text describes each component of the MSE in detail.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. What Is a Mental Status Examination
- Learning the mental status examination
- The mental status examination
- Usefulness of the mental status examination
- The interview as a means to elicit information
- The clinician's demeanor
- More on interviewing patients
- The written mental status examination
- Organization of this text
- References
- 2. Appearance, Attitude, and Activity
- Application
- Appearance
- Attitude
- Activity
- Definitions
- 3. Mood and Affect
- Mood
- Affect
- 4. Speech and Language
- Fluency
- Aphasias
- Word-finding difficulty
- Prosody of speech
- Quality of speech
- The examination
- Special situations
- Repetition
- Comprehension
- Naming
- Writing
- Reading
- Prosody
- 5. Thought Process, Thought Content, and Perception
- General comments
- Thought process
- Thought content
- Perception
- 6. Cognition
- Orientation
- Attention and concentration
- Memory
- Constructional ability
- Abstraction and conceptualization
- Standardized tests
- Integration of findings
- 7. Insight and Judgment
- Insight
- Judgment
- Defense mechanisms
- 8. Case Examples
- Case 1. Major depression
- Case 2. Primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer's type
- Case 3. Delirium
- Case 4. Alcohol abuse and dependence
- Case 5. Organic personality disorder, frontal lobe (aggressive) type
- Case 6. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Case 7. Chronic paranoid schizophrenia with acute exacerbation
- Case 8. Bipolar disorder, manic
- Appendix: General outline of written MSE report
- Index.
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Trzepacz, Paula T. The Psychiatric Mental Status Examination
- ISBN:
- 9780198022800
- 0-19-802280-8
- 0-19-987907-9
- 9786610759736
- 1-280-75973-9
- OCLC:
- 466431504
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