psychiatric examination
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Psychiatric assessment — A psychiatric assessment is a process of gathering information about a from a person within a mental health service, with the purpose of making a diagnosis. The assesment is usually the first stage of a treatment process, but psychiatric… … Wikipedia
examination — noun 1 (formal) formal test ⇨ See also ↑exam ADJECTIVE ▪ certification (AmE), entrance ▪ final ▪ He has just completed his final examinations at São Paulo University. ▪ … Collocations dictionary
Psychiatric history — A psychiatric history is the result of a medical process where a clinician working in the field of mental health (usually a psychiatrist) systematically records the content of an interview with a patient. This is then combined with the mental… … Wikipedia
Psychiatric formulation — A psychiatric formulation is an explanatory synthesis of information obtained during a psychiatric clinical assessment and mental state examinationBibliographyhttp://focus.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/4/2/297 … Wikipedia
psychiatric — adj. Psychiatric is used with these nouns: ↑assessment, ↑care, ↑clinic, ↑condition, ↑consultation, ↑diagnosis, ↑disability, ↑disorder, ↑disturbance, ↑evaluation, ↑examination, ↑ … Collocations dictionary
mental state examination — MSE a full psychiatric examination of signs and symptoms, which takes place during a psychiatric interview and should apply only to signs and symptoms elicited at that time; it should not take into account historical information. The examination… … The new mediacal dictionary
Mental status examination — Intervention ICD 9 CM 94.09, 94.11 The mental status examination in the USA or mental state … Wikipedia
Mini–mental state examination — Not to be confused with Mini international neuropsychiatric interview. The mini–mental state examination (MMSE) or Folstein test is a brief 30 point questionnaire test that is used to screen for cognitive impairment. It is commonly used in… … Wikipedia
Cognistat (The Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination) — Cognistat, formerly known as the Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination (NCSE), is a cognitive screening test that assesses five cognitive ability areas (language, construction, memory, calculations and reasoning). The test was first… … Wikipedia
Present State Examination — (PSE) A test developed by psychiatrist John Wing and colleagues at the Maudsley Hospital in Britain in the 1960s. The aim was to facilitate the standardized identification of psychiatric cases and to improve psychiatric classifications, both for… … Dictionary of sociology
