Talk:Psychiatric assessment
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Proposed structure
Introductory overview
Purpose
The purpose of assessment: diagnosis, formulation, risk management, treatment monitoring and planning. Specifically with reference to the role of a psychiatrist
Specific types
As part of treatment (the main type), also legal / forensic, work related, compensation
History
Summary of psychiatric history
Mental status examination
Summary of mental status examination
Physical examination
Relevance and use of physical examination
Physical investigations
Relevance and use of blood tests, MRI scans etc
Assessment tools
Use of questionnaires, symptom checklists etc
Multidisciplinary assessment
In e.g. hospital settings, the role of nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, social workers etc
Context
Adaptation for hospital vs out-patient clinic vs home (community) vs prison
Special groups
Children; cross-cultural; elderly
Outcome
Reference to diagnosis, formulation, treatment plan, risk assessment
Other perspectives
Other models of assessment e.g. psychotherapeutic, systemic, solution focused
See also
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--Anonymaus (talk) 22:43, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
AfD tag removed
The AfD tag was removed because
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--Anonymaus (talk) 22:42, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
- I think this article is much needed. Any thoughts about addressing assessments done by non-psychiatric (non-medical) professionals, for example as briefly outlined in clinical psychology? Do they need a separate article (psychological testing exists but is very unspecific) or should one article cover all assessment practices relating to mental disorder? EverSince (talk) 09:30, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
- Perhaps the "Multidisciplinary assessment" section could cover this. We do have Psychological evaluation (redirects from Psychological assessment) which ...erm... could do with some work. We also have Occupational therapy and Psychiatric and mental health nursing but neither of these go into assessment. I do think this article should be an overview of assessment in mental health. --Anonymaus (talk) 00:44, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
This article is developing nicely but I'd like to reiterate the point about it being titled "psychiatric" assessment, beacuse it is (rightly) including assessment by psychologists, social workers, multidisciplinary etc, and specificlaly mentions non-medical models. Perhaps it could be titled mental health assessment, with a section specifically on psychiatric models/assessments if necessary. Still restricts it to being a "health" phenomenon rather than, say "life difficulties" :) but bit broader... EverSince (talk) 11:43, 8 September 2008 (UTC)