Conducting a Mental Status Exam
Please view and select one of the patients depicted in the following videos. Both patients have different diagnoses and presentations—the diagnosis is apparent from the titles and not the focus of the assignment.
 
The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate the patient and write up a mental status exam on what you observe in the video that you.
 
Your initial post should identify which video you have chosen and should include a detailed mental status exam write-up of that patient. The intent of this exercise is to help you to develop your skills in the assessment of a patient’s mental status and documentation of the mental status exam.
 
Please watch the following video clips and write up a mental status of the patients:
 
MINI Screening for Mood, Anxiety or Psychotic Disorder (28:00 minutes)
 
MINI Screening for Mood, Anxiety or Psychotic Disorder Video Transcript
 
C-Mary Manic Episode (6:34 minutes)
 
C-Mary Manic Episode Video Transcript