A Guide to Psychiatric Examination - E-Book, 1st Edition

• Practical guidance on writing reports and communicating your findings effectively
• Starts from first principles to give a sound foundation for all psychiatric interviews
• Covers all mental health conditions with both DSM-V and ICD-11 classifications
• Key topics such as risk assessments, managing difficult encounters, home visits, practising safely
• Insights into how it feels to be interviewed written by a patient

Chapter 1.Being interviewed: the psychiatric assessment as a co-constructed relationship Section 1:The basics Chapter 2.Information gathering Chapter 3.Becoming a skilled interviewer Section 2:The diagnostic psychiatric interview Chapter 4.Preparing for the interview Chapter 5.The diagnostic interview Chapter 6.The mental state examination Chapter 7.Bringing it all together Chapter 8.Recording and communicating your assessment to others Section 3:Specific presentations Chapter 9.Depression Chapter 10.The suicidal person Chapter 11.Mania Chapter 12.Psychosis Chapter 13.Anxiety Chapter 14.Obsessive–compulsive symptoms Chapter 15.Post-traumatic stress disorder Chapter 16.Confusion part 1: delirium Chapter 17.Confusion part 2: dementia Chapter 18.Substance use and addiction behaviours Chapter 19.The person with feeding and eating disorders Chapter 20.Borderline personality disorder Chapter 21. Pregnancy and the postnatal period Chapter 22.The unresponsive person Chapter 23.Dealing with a potentially violent person Chapter 24.Neurodevelopmental disorders Section 4:Specific places Chapter 25.Assessments in the accident and emergency department Chapter 26.Assessments in the home Chapter 27.Assessments in the general hospital (or CL unplugged) Section 5:Specific groups Chapter 28.The assessment of children and adolescents Chapter 29.Assessment of older people Chapter 30.Assessment of people with intellectual disabilities Chapter 31.Assessment of people from different ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds Section 6:In-depth topics Chapter 32.Personality difficulties Chapter 33.The extended cognitive assessment Chapter 34.Assessment of mental capacity Chapter 35.Risk and risk assessment Chapter 36.Assessment of physical health Chapter 37.Changed behaviours in people with dementia Chapter 38.Difficult encounters Section 7:Approaching examinations Chapter 39.Examination skills Appendices Appendix 1.History-taking checklist Appendix 2.Mental state examination checklist Appendix 3.Suicide assessment checklist Appendix 4.Risk review checklist Appendix 5.Categorical classification of personality disorders Appendix 6.NEAMI health prompt Appendix 7.Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) Publishing history Index