assessment tools

• Psychosocial Assessment is an evaluation of an individual's mental health and social well-being.
• Psychosocial Assessment assesses self-perception and the individual's ability to function in the community.
• component of psychosocial assessment: client (i) initial information
• component of psychosocial assessment: presenting (p) problem
• component of psychosocial assessment: (p) present and (p) past health history
• component of psychosocial assessment: relevant (f) family history
• component of psychosocial assessment: (r) response to mental health problems
• component of psychosocial assessment: risk assessment on (s) suicide or (h) homicide
• component of psychosocial assessment: (p) psychosocial development of the patient
• Manifestations Seen in Patients with Mental Disorders: disturbance in (a) affect
• Manifestations Seen in Patients with Mental Disorders: disturbance in (t) thoughts
• Manifestations Seen in Patients with Mental Disorders: disturbance in (p) perception
• Manifestations Seen in Patients with Mental Disorders: disturbance in (m) motor (b) behavior
• Manifestations Seen in Patients with Mental Disorders: disturbance in (m) memory
• component of psychosocial assessment: Client Initial Information

  • patient’s name, address, age, gender
• component of psychosocial assessment: Present and Past Health History

  • existing and past medical & mental illness
  • hospitalizations
  • medications and other treatment
  • physiologic and self-care problem
• component of psychosocial assessment: Relevant Family History

  • family’s physical and mental health problems
  • use and abuse of recreational drugs by the family
• component of psychosocial assessment: Response to Mental Health Problems

  • relationship changes
  • role change
  • lifestyle change
  • self-concept change
• component of psychosocial assessment: Risk Assessment on Suicide or Homicide

  • ideation: “are you thinking about killing yourself?”
• component of psychosocial assessment: Risk Assessment on Suicide or Homicide

  • plan: “do you have a plan of killing yourself?”
• component of psychosocial assessment: Risk Assessment on Suicide or Homicide

  • method: “how do you plan to kill yourself?”
• component of psychosocial assessment: Risk Assessment on Suicide or Homicide

  • access: “how would you carry out this plan?”
• component of psychosocial assessment: Risk Assessment on Suicide or Homicide

  • where: “where would you kill yourself?”
• component of psychosocial assessment: Risk Assessment on Suicide or Homicide

  • when: “when do you plan to kill yourself?”
• component of psychosocial assessment: Risk Assessment on Suicide or Homicide

  • timing: “what day or time of day do you plan to kill yourself?”
• component of psychosocial assessment: Psychosocial Development of the Patient

  • childhood. describe nurturing done by their primary caregivers
• component of psychosocial assessment: Psychosocial Development of the Patient

  • adolescence. describe peer group
• normal state of affect: euthymic
• inappropriate affect: disharmony between thought and emotional response
• flat affect – no emotion attached to the content of speech
• blunt affect – decreased emotional response
• elated affect – extreme and inappropriate joyfulness associated with increased motor activity and speech
• depressed or dysphoric affect – pathologic feeling of sadness
• anger or aggression – pathologic feeling of hostility
• anxious – grieve feeling of apprehension
• labile affect – change of emotion from happiness to tearfulness in a very short span of time
• (d) delusion – false belief that cannot be corrected by reasons.
• (p) persecutory – false belief that others are against them or will harm them
• (n) nihilistic – false belief that one denies existence of self or part of self
• (b) thought broadcasting – false belief that one’s thought can be read by others