Overview
Description
Mental health knowledge, concepts, and techniques for the evaluation and diagnosis of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate interviewing techniques that facilitate clients’ trust and willingness to share important information.
- employ criteria from DSM V in guiding the interview process and generating differential diagnoses.
- construct health promotion frameworks that summarize coexisting medical problems or risk for iatrogenic sequelae.
- identify safety needs based on risk toward self or others and predict risk inducing situation such as drug use, life-style change, loss of support, or psychosis.
- examine, evaluate, and utilize psychiatric questionnaires or rating scales developed for psychiatric disorders and clients across the lifespan.
- develop clinical judgment through evaluation of diagnostic hypotheses using data to validate and refute findings.
- correlate psychiatric and neurological findings with elements of the Mental Status Examination.
- construct a psychiatric formulation based on symptoms; psychiatric and medical history; family and cultural dynamics; social and developmental achievements; MSE; coping abilities, and differential diagnoses.