Five important components of the psychiatric interview
Assessment tools have two primary purposes: 1) to measure illness and diagnose clients, and 2) to measure a client’s response to treatment. Often, you will find that multiple assessment tools are designed to measure the same condition or response. For this assignment, the assessment too is: (Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale).
• An explanation of five important components of the psychiatric interview and why you consider these elements important.
• Explain in detail the psychometric properties of the rating scale (Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale).
• Explain when it is appropriate to use this rating scale with clients during the psychiatric interview
• Elaborate on how the scale is helpful to a nurse practitioner’s psychiatric assessment. Support your approach with six evidence-based pieces of literature.
Sample Solution
Five important components of the psychiatric interview
Highly structured interviews have become the gold standard of diagnostic interviewing in psychiatry, primarily in research but also, increasingly, in ordinary clinical work. The psychiatric interview is a key diagnostic instrument for psychiatrists given that laboratory exams do not provide evidence for psychopathologic processes. The goal of a psychiatric assessment is to describe the patient`s complaints, appearance, and existence in an actionable psychopathological format, namely, one that results in diagnostic classification and other clinical decisions. The main components of psychiatric include: identification and chief symptom; history of present illness; psychiatric history; family history; and social history.
