Psychiatric evaluation of an adult
EBM Guidelines
May 5, 2020 • Latest change Aug 21, 2020
Table of contents
- Essentials
- Conduct of a psychiatric interview
- Psychiatric clinical assessment
- Charting of psychotic symptoms
- What to note if a personality disorder is suspected
- Evaluating depressive symptoms
- Evaluating symptoms of anxiety
- Evaluation of a patient with substance abuse
- Evaluation of gambling problems
- Evaluation of eating disorders
- Evaluation of non-organic sleep disorders
- References
Extract
- The principal task is to form an impression of the patient’s current
- sense of reality (to differentiate between a psychotic and delirious patient)
- mood (normal, mild/moderate/severe depression v. hypomania/mania) and emotional responses
- self-destructive behaviour (in a depressed patient) in order to assess the need for treatment and its urgency
- cognitive functioning, perception, concentration as well as the capacity for abstract reasoning.
Search terms
Anxiety Disorders, Assessment, Depression, Eating Disorders, Evaluation, Examination, Mental Disorders, Mental Health, Mental status, Mentally Ill Persons, Patient evaluation, Patient examination, Patients, Personality Disorders, Physician-Patient Relations, Psychiatric evaluation, Psychiatric patient, Psychiatry, Psychosis, Schizophrenia and Disorders with Psychotic Features, Sleep Disorders, Substance-Related Disorders