NURS 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Dsm-5, Mental Status Examination, Nipissing District
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Jarvis: physical examination & health assessment, 2nd canadian. This section discusses key points about the components of the mental health examination. Mental health, broadly defined, is the capacity to feel, think, express emotions, and behave in ways that enhance personal capacity to manage challenges, adapt successfully to a range of demands, and enjoy life. It cannot be scrutinized directly like heart sounds. Instead, its functioning is inferred by assessing the individual"s consciousness, language, mood and affect, orientation, attention, memory, abstract reasoning, thought process, thought content, and perceptions: for some aspects of the assessment, you may ask direct questions, such as. Where are you? : for others, you can gather data indirectly through the way the patient responds to questions during the health assessment. Mental disorder is the medical term for mental illness and is defined and diagnosed in canada according to criteria specified in the diagnostic and statistical manual of.
