Title
Mental Status Examination
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
3-12-2019
Publication Title
Diagnostic interviewing 5th edition
Publisher
Springer
Edition
5
First page number:
77
Last page number:
102
Abstract
The mental status examination (MSE) is a structured assessment of the clinically relevant areas of a client’s behavioral, emotional, and cognitive functioning. It includes descriptions of the client’s overall appearance, comportment, and behavior; it also describes a client’s thought and perceptual processes and content, emotional state, and cognitive abilities, including level of consciousness, orientation and attention, and insight. By coalescing these important domains, the MSE paints a picture of the client at a given point in time.
Keywords
Mental status exam; Observation; Evaluation; Interviewing
Disciplines
Behavioral Medicine | Medical Specialties | Medicine and Health Sciences | Mental and Social Health
Language
English
Repository Citation
Renn, B. N.,
John, S. E.
(2019).
Mental Status Examination.
Diagnostic interviewing 5th edition
77-102.
Springer.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9127-3_4