Interview Guide For Evaluating DSM-5-TR Psychiatric Disorders and the Mental Status Examination

By: Mark Zimmerman

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Synopsis: This book provides questions for evaluating psychiatric disorders. DSM-5-TR lists the disorders and their criteria, but it does not guide the beginner in inquiry for them. Students and clinicians in training are relatively unfamiliar with psychiatric diagnoses, and they cannot possibly remember all of the disorders and their corresponding diagnostic criteria within a short period of study. Moreover, it is often not obvious what questions to ask to determine the symptom's presence. How do you inquire for thought withdrawal, delusions of reference, panic attacks, obsessions, identity disturbance, mood instability, etc., Even more basic, how do you begin the interview? The Interview Guide consists of questions for the most common DSM-5 diagnoses including personality disorders. This book is not a standardized interview, to be started on page x and followed until page xx. Rather it is a quick reference to be used in the context of a clinical interview. If a patient complains of depression, the interviewer can turn to the section on major depression and assess the relevant symptoms. The book is organized by diagnosis and contains 9 sections.