Mini-Mental State Examination
Review this week's Learning Resources and reflect on the insights they provide regarding psychiatric assessment and diagnosis.
Consider the elements of the psychiatric interview, history, and examination.
Consider the assessment tool assigned to you by the Course Instructor.
Post a brief explanation of three important components of the psychiatric interview and why you consider these elements important. Explain the psychometric properties of the rating scale you were assigned. Explain when it is appropriate to use this rating scale with clients during the psychiatric interview and how the scale is helpful to a nurse practitioner’s psychiatric assessment. Support your approach with evidence-based literature.
The Assessment tool is Mini-Mental State Examintion
Reading resources:
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Section I: DSM-5 basics. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., pp. 5–29). Author.
Carlat, D. J. (2017). The psychiatric interview (4th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
Chapter 34, Writing Up the Results of the Interview
Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2015). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry (11th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
Chapter 5, Examination and Diagnosis of the Psychiatric Patient
Chapter 6, Classification in Psychiatry
Chapter 31, Child Psychiatry (Sections 31.1 and 31.2 only)
Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2017). Psychiatric interview, history, and mental status examination. In Kaplan and Sadock’s Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry (4th ed., pp. 9–15). Wolters Kluwer.
Note: You can also use your own sources not later than 5 years.
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Mini-Mental State Examination
The three important components of a psychiatric interview include an overview, history of present illness, and family history. The first component, overview, involves the introduction of the interview. A psychiatric interview must start with a personal introduction and establish the interview purpose. This creates an alliance around the initial examination. The second component, history of present illness, accounts for the significant events in the patient's life relevant to the psychiatric illness being addressed (Sadock et al., 2017). It helps generate the history of the course of the illness. This component is important because it provides the initial data to obtain the differential diagnoses, guide decision-making, and evaluate the patient’s problem (Sadock et al., 2017). The third component, the patient's family history, aids in the diagnosis of the mental disorder. It also provides a degree of context to the patient’s developmental history.
The psychometric properties of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) rating scale includes t...
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