MSE Week 3 Appearance - personal identification, behavior

MSE Week3

Rewatch the same  Patient Interview . You will now write the mental status exam portion of the psychiatric report. The mental status exam can be written in bulleted or narrative format, but should include the following sections:  

· Appearance - personal identification, behavior, psychomotor activity, general description 

· Speech 

· Mood and affect 

· Thinking and perception - form of thinking, content of thinking, thought disturbances, perceptual disturbances 

· Sensorium - alertness, orientation, memory, concentration, fund of knowledge, abstract thinking 

· Insight 

· Judgement