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Block Goals
- Demonstrate the utilization of THE 4- PART THERAPEUTIC ASSESSMENT in your patient interviews.
- Demonstrate that you are able to apply the EIGHT AREAS of the psychiatric work-up and PSYCHIATRIC SCREENS outlined in the CU ASSESSMENT OF COMMON PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS.
- For the common psychiatric problems listed below, to be able to discuss their presentation, the use of appropriate screens, their clinical course, basic biological mechanisms, and their basic treatment plans based on the American Psychiatric Association or the Academy of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry practice guidelines.
- Demonstrate the ability to establish an alliance with your patients and comfort in exploring psychological issues with your patients.
- Demonstrate that you are able to ask for help with your patients and your skills as an adult learner.
MINIMUM CLINICAL EXPERIENCES - 70% - 100% compliance. Participate in patient evaluations, interview, and screen for at least 70% the following common psychiatric problems using screens from the CU ASSESSMENT OF COMMON PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS. Track this activity on your paper logger and electronically. Patients you examine may have more than one problem e.g. bipolar illness and substance abuse, schizophrenia and suicidal thinking or actions. In other words, you may complete a number of screens with only one patient. Ultimately, a particular patient may have none of these things but we want you to gain experience using these key screens.
Note: even if you don’t screen patients for 100% of the following, you will read about, and be examined on, case presentations of these diagnoses, their presentations and treatment in the sixty cases in CASE FILES PSYCHIATRY textbook.
In addition to screening for the following ten common psychiatric problems below, be able to describe their:
- basic biological mechanisms
- presentation and clinical course
- and, if available, treatment plans based on the American Psychiatric Association or the Academy of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry practice guidelines (below).
- Major depression
- Bipolar illness
- Schizophrenia
- Suicidal thinking or actions
- Anxiety or co-morbid anxiety such as panic, OCD, PTSD, GAD.
- An eating disorder
- Substance abuse or co-morbid substance abuse/dependence.
- A sleep disorder or co-morbid sleep disorder such as insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea, circadian rhythm disorder, restless legs, parasomnias such as sleep walking or night terrors.
- A cognitive disorder, either delirium or dementia
- ADHD
And - preferably in a patient in whom the diagnosis is unclear – complete a FAMILY TREE outlining psychiatric diagnoses of biologically related relatives such as grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, siblings and parents and children if appropriate.
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Psychiatric Care Course
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