Assessment of mood and anxiety
Activity
Clinical Skills Sessions
Clinical Skills Sessions
Assessment of Mood. Key concepts: Symptoms, syndromes, episodes, and disorders. Depressive symptoms. Manic Symptoms. Mood Episodes and Disorders: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder. Screening for depression. Assessment of Anxiety. Main Anxiety Disorders: Specific Phobia; Social Phobia (aka social anxiety disorder); Panic Disorder with/without Agoraphobia; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
Curriculum Block
Brain and Behaviour / Medical Foundation 4 / Part 4 / Week 1
Objectives
General Objectives
- Apathy and withdrawal.
- Understand the components of the mental status exam and its place within a full patient history.
- Be able to identify and describe core psychiatric phenomenology.
- Understand the difference between process and content and the role that both play in informing the mental status exam and differential diagnosis.
- Be able to elicit core psychiatric symptomatology during a patient encounter (i.e. mood, anxiety, psychosis, suicide and homicide risk) and have developed a core set of screening questions.
- Be able to complete an accurate written mental status exam.
- Depressed mood or anhedonia.
- Irritability or elevated mood.
Assessments
Objectives Structured Clinical Examination
End-Unit Clinical Skills Assessment
Tags
AFMC National Clinical Skills
Mental Status Examination
Archived
Archived
Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
Curriculum Block
Brain and Behaviour
Medical Foundation 4
Part 4
Week 1
Curriculum Week
Part 4
Week 9
Discipline
Psychiatry
General MCC Objectives
Clinical Judgement And Decision-Making
MCC Presentations
Anxiety
Depressed Mood
Mania / Hypomania
McMaster Professional Competency
Clinical Skills
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
MeSH
Anxiety Disorders [F03.080]
Bipolar Disorder [F03.600.150.150]
Clinical Competence [I02.399.630.210]
Depression [F01.145.126.350]
Depressive Disorder [F03.600.300]
Interview, Psychological [F04.669.599]
Mood Disorders [F03.600]
Phobic Disorders [F03.080.725]
