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Refers to the standard procedure used to evaluate the client's mental and emotional
functioning at the time the client is seen by the mental health professional. Involves a
precise series of observations as well as some specific questions
Mental Status Examination
Categories of mental status examination: GMATTCIJ
- General assessment and motor behavior
- Mood
- Affect
- Thought process
- Thought content
- Cognitive evaluation
- Insight
- Judgment
Hygiene and grooming, appropriate dress, posture, eye contact, unusual movements or
mannerisms, speech
General Assessment and Motor Behavior
Categories under the General Assessment and Motor Behavior: GAWAP
a. Grooming, level of hygiene, characteristics of clothing
b. Automatisms
c. Waxy Flexibility
,d. Attitude
e. Psychomotor activity
Categories under the General Assessment and Motor Behavior:
Repeated purposeless behaviors indicative of anxiety such tapping the foot, twisting locks
of hair
Automatisms
Categories under the General Assessment and Motor Behavior:
Maintenance of posture or position over time even when it is awkward or uncomfortable
Waxy flexibility
Categories under the General Assessment and Motor Behavior:
Ability to interact with the interviewer
Attitude
Categories under the General Assessment and Motor Behavior:
Note agitation, retardation, tense, lethargy
Psychomotor activity
, Refers to the internal emotional tone of the patient. It is a subjective way a client explains
feelings. It may be sustained for days or weeks, or it may fluctuate during the course of a
day
Mood
Categories under the mood: EELD
a. Euthymic
b. Euphoric
c. Labile
d. Dysphoric
Categories under the mood:
a. Normal mood
a. Euthymic
Categories under the mood:
b. elated
b. Euphoric
Categories under the mood:
c. changeable
Labile
Refers to the standard procedure used to evaluate the client's mental and emotional
functioning at the time the client is seen by the mental health professional. Involves a
precise series of observations as well as some specific questions
Mental Status Examination
Categories of mental status examination: GMATTCIJ
- General assessment and motor behavior
- Mood
- Affect
- Thought process
- Thought content
- Cognitive evaluation
- Insight
- Judgment
Hygiene and grooming, appropriate dress, posture, eye contact, unusual movements or
mannerisms, speech
General Assessment and Motor Behavior
Categories under the General Assessment and Motor Behavior: GAWAP
a. Grooming, level of hygiene, characteristics of clothing
b. Automatisms
c. Waxy Flexibility
,d. Attitude
e. Psychomotor activity
Categories under the General Assessment and Motor Behavior:
Repeated purposeless behaviors indicative of anxiety such tapping the foot, twisting locks
of hair
Automatisms
Categories under the General Assessment and Motor Behavior:
Maintenance of posture or position over time even when it is awkward or uncomfortable
Waxy flexibility
Categories under the General Assessment and Motor Behavior:
Ability to interact with the interviewer
Attitude
Categories under the General Assessment and Motor Behavior:
Note agitation, retardation, tense, lethargy
Psychomotor activity
, Refers to the internal emotional tone of the patient. It is a subjective way a client explains
feelings. It may be sustained for days or weeks, or it may fluctuate during the course of a
day
Mood
Categories under the mood: EELD
a. Euthymic
b. Euphoric
c. Labile
d. Dysphoric
Categories under the mood:
a. Normal mood
a. Euthymic
Categories under the mood:
b. elated
b. Euphoric
Categories under the mood:
c. changeable
Labile
