Psychiatric Assessment and Diagnosis

Psychiatric Interview and Rating Scale
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Psychiatric Interview and Rating Scale
Psychiatrists embrace psychiatric interviews to obtain information or collect data that relates to the medical, social, and family history, among others. Saddock et al. (2017) establish that psychiatric interviews are exploited during the evaluation of people with mental conditions. The three important components of the psychiatric interview I consider important include past psychiatric history, history of present illness, and family history. Family history can reveal influential data in a psychiatric interview to establish the prevalence of a genetic predisposition and influence diagnosis and prognosis decisions. The focus on the history of the present illness will cover the symptoms that the patient exhibits and how they evolve. As Saddock et al. (2017) allude, the objective is to comprehend the situation and obtain clues regarding diagnosis and interventions. The past psychiatric history focuses on the condition before the present illness, and a review of the history can also context, diagnosis, interventions offered, and outcomes, among others, that will shape ...