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- Current mental state: 'Picture' - Describe the appearance and behaviour of the patient, such that the examiner can build up a mental picture of him.
Highlight the psychopathology - In the rest of the mental...>more
- Diagnosis: Support with reasons from history and mental state.
Explain why the patient became ill now - e.g. noncompliance with medication or high expressed emotion (i.e. relatives in the patients...>more
- Differential diagnosis: The diagnostic hierarchy is useful in deciding this ‑
Personality disorder
Neuroses
Paranoid states
Affective disorder
Schizophrenia
Organic disorders
A high-priority...>more
- Investigations: Physical - Full physical examination, blood tests, urine tests, X-ray, EEG, ECG.
Psycho-Social - Assessment of general intelligence, personality, neuro-psychological status, aptitudes,...>more
- Management: Physica - drugs, ECT; psychosurgery: consider both the immediate and subsequent management.
Social - support in the community by social worker or community psychiatric nurse.
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- Prognosis: State whether poor or good with reasons, e.g. good prognosis because of acute onset, presence of precipitating factor.
Consider the prognosis both for this episode and in the long term.
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Alcohol Treatment Rehab
The focus is on healing at the
Casa Palmera Alcohol Treatment Rehab center and each patient receives a
type of care that cannot be found elsewhere. From yoga to stress
management, patients are taught how to live a healthy, balanced life
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