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International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
The DSM-5 lists 22 major categories of mental disorders, comprising more
than 150 discrete illnesses. All of the disorders listed are described
indetail in the sections of the book that follow and cover epidemiology
etiology diagnosis differential diagnoses, clinical features, and treatment
of each disorder. Systems of classification for psychiatric diagnoses have
several purposes:
to distinguish one psychiatric diagnosis from
another
to provide a common language among health
care professionals
to explore the still unknown causes of many
mental disorders.
Identifying Data
Identified patient and family members
Source of referral
Informants
History
Chief Complaint
HPI
Developmental history/milestones
Psych history
medical history/immunizations
Fx/Sx/Hx parents marital status
Educational history, current school functioning
peer relationship hx
current family functioning
family psych/med hx
current physical exam
Mental Status exam
physical appearance
parent-child interaction
separation/reunion
, orientation to time, place and person
speech and language
mood
affect
thought process and content
social relatedness
motor behavior
cognition
memory
judgement and insight
Neuropsychiatric exam (prn)
More involved mental status exam including
general description
language speech
thought
mood affect
insight judgement
cognition
General Description
General appearance/dress
level of consciousness and arousal
attention to environment
posture standing/seated
gait
movement (limbs trunk face, spontaneous, resting, after instruction)
general demeanor
response to examiner (eye contact, focus cooperation)
native or primary language
Language and speech
Comprehension (words, sentences, simple complex, commands, and
concepts)
output(spontaneity, rate, fluency, melody or prosody volume coherence
vocabulary paraphasic errors complexity)
repetition
other aspects (object naming, color naming, body part ID, ideomotor
praxis to command)
Thought
Form(coherence and connectedness)
content
ideational(preoccupations, overvalued ideas, delusions)
perceptual (hallucinations)
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