Examination and Diagnosis of the Psychiatric Patient Exam Practice Questions and Answers
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2024/2025
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2024/2025
Examination and Diagnosis of the Psychiatric Patient Exam Practice
Questions and Answers
What is the primary goal of the psychiatric interview and assessment? - Ans:-identification of
mental and emotional disorders and clinical diagnosis
What are some challenges of the psychiatric interview and...
What is the rationale for a closed-ended interviewing approach? - Ans:✔✔-pertinent positives and
negatives, identification of disorder type for the specific patient (certain personality traits are
characteristic of certain disorders)
What is the psychiatric chief complaint? - Ans:✔✔-the patients own terms
What is involved in the psychiatric HPI? - Ans:✔✔-longitudinal course and response to treatment
(important for clinical diagnosis)
identify social factors relevant to the onset/exacerbation of the illness (why now?)
What is involved in the past psychiatric history? - Ans:✔✔-initial signs and symptoms, response or lack of
response to treatment
What is the significance of the PMH for psychiatric patients? - Ans:✔✔-up to 30-50% of psyche patients
have significant medical co-morbidity
medical disorder etiologically (causation) related in up to 5-30% of patients
in particular attend to neurologic and endocrine disorders
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