Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation
ANSWERS
What is a thorough psychiatric evaluation?
A comprehensive psychiatric evaluation may be required to diagnose emotional, behavioral, or developmental disorders. A child, adolescent, or adult’s behavior is evaluated as physical, genetic, environmental, social, cognitive (thinking), emotional, and educational components that may be affected due to these behaviors.
Who is being evaluated?
Families, spouses, teachers, or friends are frequently the first to suspect that a loved one is being challenged by feelings, behaviors, or environmental conditions that cause them to act disruptive, rebellious, or sad. Such issues include problems with relationships with friends or family members, work, school, sleeping, eating, substance abuse, emotional expression, development, coping, attentiveness, and responsiveness. Families who suspect a problem in any of these areas should seek treatment as soon as possible. Treatment for mental illnesses is available.
What does a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation entail?
These are the most common components of a thorough, diagnostic psychiatric evaluation. However, each review is unique because each person’s symptoms and behaviors are unique. The assessment may include the following:
Behaviors are described in detail (like when the behaviors happen, how long does the behavior last, and what are the conditions in which the behaviors most often happen)
Symptoms description (physical and psychiatric symptoms)
Behaviors or symptoms associated with:
Workplace performance
Academic performance at school
Interactions and relationships with others (like spouses, coworkers, family members, or neighbors)
Involvement of family members
Participation in an activity
Psychiatric examination
Emotional, behavioral, or developmental disorders in one’s own family
Complete medical history, including a description of the individual’s overall physical health, a list of any other illnesses or conditions present, and a description of any current treatments
In some cases, lab tests (such as those listed below) may be used to determine whether an underlying medical condition exists.
Examinations of the blood
Radiology examinations to look for anomalies, particularly in brain structures
Educational evaluations
Speech and language evaluations
QUESTION
Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation
To Prepare
- Select a patient that you examined during the past weeks Conduct a Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation on this patient using the template provided in the Learning Resources. There is also a completed exemplar document in the Learning Resources so that you can see an example of the types of information a completed evaluation document should contain. All psychiatric evaluations must be signed, and each page must be initialed by your Preceptor. When you submit your document, you should include the complete Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation as a Word document, as well as a PDF/images of each page that is initialed and signed by your Preceptor. You must submit your document using SafeAssign. Please Note: Electronic signatures are not accepted. If both files are not received by the due date, Faculty will deduct points per the Walden Late Policies.
- Include at least five (5) scholarly resources to support your assessment and diagnostic reasoning.