DAY 1 Assignment

Conduct and record a Case History and Mental Status examination interview with a friend/

family member.

Written Assignment:

a) Submit transcript of the recording in the discussed format

a. Interviewer: “What is your name?” Interviewee: “My name is Ila”……

b) Write down the Case History and the Mental Status Examination in the provided

format

c) Reflection paper: write a brief (one page) reflection journal on the interview you

conducted, difficulties and challenges you faced, ease of conduction, strengths and

limitations, ease of following general considerations, learnings from the process of

interview conductions.

Case History Interview Format

1. Identifying data, including name, sex, occupation, address, date and place of birth,

religion, and education.

2. Reason for coming and expectations for service.

3. Present situation and concerns

4. Family history

5. Birth and development,

 6. Health: childhood and later diseases and injuries, comparison of one’s body with others.

7. Education and training, including subjects of special interest and achievement.

8. Work record, including reasons for changing jobs and attitudes toward work.

9. Recreation and interests: volunteer work, reading, and adequacy of self-expression and

pleasures.

10. Sexual development history

11. Relationship history

12. Self-description, including strengths, weaknesses, and ideals.

13. Choices and turning points in life, most important decisions and changes, including the

single most important happening.

14. View of the future, including what the subject would like to see happen next year and in

five or ten years, and what is necessary for these events to happen.

15. Any further material the respondent may see as omitted from the history.

Mental Status Examination Interview Format

1. General Presentation: Appearance, Behavior, Attitude

2. State of Consciousness: Alert, Hyperalert, Lethargic

3. Attention and Concentration

 4. Speech: Clarity, Goal-directedness, Language deficits

5. Orientation: To Person, Place, Time

6. Mood and Affect

7. Form of Thought; Formal Thought Disorder

8. Thought Content: Preoccupations, Obsessions, Delusions

9. Ability to Think Abstractly

10. Perceptions: Hallucinations

11. Memory: Immediate, Recent, Remote

12. Intellectual Functioning

13. Insight and Judgment

DAY 1 Research Article for Critical Analysis

Link for Research Article:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546682/

Voss, R. M., & Das, J. M. (2019). Mental Status Examination. In StatPearls [Internet].
StatPearls Publishing.