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    The document outlines the components of a mental status examination, including assessing a patient's general appearance, behavior, attitude, mood, affect, speech, perceptual disturbances, thought process, thought content, orientation, memory, fund of knowledge, attention/concentration, reading/writing ability, visuospatial ability, ability to follow commands, abstract reasoning, judgment, impulse control, and insight. The examination is used to evaluate a patient's mental well-being and functioning.

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    The document outlines the components of a mental status examination, including assessing a patient's general appearance, behavior, attitude, mood, affect, speech, perceptual disturbances, thought process, thought content, orientation, memory, fund of knowledge, attention/concentration, reading/writing ability, visuospatial ability, ability to follow commands, abstract reasoning, judgment, impulse control, and insight. The examination is used to evaluate a patient's mental well-being and functioning.

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    Mental Status Examination

    I. General Appearance: Describe also manner of clothing (if appropriate to the occasion or not),
    if subject looks appropriate to chronologic age

    II. Behavior: tics/ mannerisms, eye contact

    III. Attitude towards Examiner: Cooperative, guarded, uncooperative

    IV. Mood: ASK: How do you feel? What is your mood today?

    V. Affect: OBSERVE.
    Range of affect: broad-ranged, constricted, blunted, flat
    Appropriateness

    VI. Speech: OBSERVE.


    Spontaneous or not
    Volume
    Hypo-, normo-, hyperproductive
    Pressured or not

    VII. Perceptual disturbances: ASK


    illusions
    Hallucinations: visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory

    VIII. Thought process: OBSERVE


    Goal-oriented
    Flight of ideas/ Looseness of associations
    Circumstantiality/ tangentiality

    IX. Thought content: ASK


    Preoccupations
    Ideations/ delusions
    Suicidal/ homicidal ideations

    X. Orientation
    Time, place and person

    XI. Memory
    Immediate recall
    Recent
    Recent past
    Remote

    XII. Fund of knowledge


    XIII. Attention/ Concentration
    Serial 7s

    XIV. Reading/ Writing


    Write a sentence/ their name
    Read a sentence

    XV. Visuospatial ability


    Interlocking pentagons or draw a clock

    XVI. Ability to follow a three-step command

    XVII. Abstract reasoning


    Interpret proverbs

    XVIII. Judgment
    Ability to predict consequences of an action
    Test judgment/ social judgment

    XIX. Impulse control: OBSERVE

    XX. Insight: ASK. What do you understand of your condition?


    6 levels of insight
    Levels of Insight
    Level 1: Complete denial of illness
    Level 2: Awareness of being ill, but denying it at the same time
    Level 3: Awareness of being ill but blames illness on external factors
    Level 4: Awareness of being ill but not knowing the cause
    Level 5: Intellectual Insight
    Level 6: True Emotional Insight

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