Mental Health Assessment

Running Head: MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT
MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
Author note:

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Mental status examination: modelled from NSW HEALTH documents
Activity 1-
APPEARANCE- Dimitri is a young man who looks physically fit and has long black hair.
He is tall and has a lean body structure. He had a bad hygiene as he was continuously biting
nails. He has no tattoo or piercing in his body. He does not groomed at all.
BEHAVIOUR – His behaviour is different from the normal person. He faced difficulty in
building rapport with the psychiatrist. He is not able to connect with the doctor. He has lack
of concentration and hence not able to concentrate on the psychiatrist’s words. He is also
suffering from psychomotor complication, he gets distracted very easily due to voice
hallucination.
AFFECT- Therapy session helps him in identifying his issue and mental complication. He
hates being judged for his mental issue and get frustrated. He seems very confused regarding
his problems. He shows good congruence with the doctor, when the doctor advised him to get
hospitalized for some time.
MOOD- His mood remain fluctuated. Due to schizophrenia he feels scared. He was not able
to convey his words to the nurse due to his mood fluctuation. He showed delayed response to
the nurse’s question.
SPEECH- He suffers from speech disability and is not able to complete a sentence
appropriately. He starts blabbering in the middle of the conversation. He looks confused
while speaking and gets distracted by the hallucination.
THOUGHT FORM – He was not able to correlates things. He was not able to frame his
sentence and remain confused.

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THOUGHT CONTENT – He gets engrossed in his own feeling while speaking and shows
lack of concentration.
PERCEPTION - He have auditory hallucination, due to which he remain depressed and
confused all the time. He is not able to focus in his work because of the hallucination.
COGNITION & INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING- he is not well oriented. He gets
distracted easily with minimum self-confidence. He has knowledge of calculation, but gets
distracted because of low confidence.
INSIGHT & JUDGEMENT- After the session it was observed that, he had minimum
confidence in himself. He gets auditory hallucination, due to which he remains confused and
depressed. He has only one friend, Cheryl. He gets scared by the idea of travelling outside.
He is not able to complete sentences and starts blabbering in the middle of the conversation.
Identification of Risk Factors
Health deterioration due to voice hallucination (Wang et al., 2016) - Dimitri is a young
man who is suffering from mental complication. He is suffering from schizophrenia, he
thinks that there is someone who is continuously talking to him. Due to that, he remains
distressed all the time and was not able to concentrate at his work. He gets scared by the idea
of being alone. He has lost his self-confidence. All the factor stated above are responsible for
his deteriorating health.
Isolation (Meier et al., 2014) - he has only one friend, Cheryl. He has isolated himself from
everyone and has no social circle. As a result of isolation, he is getting into depression and
his health is becoming mire deteriorated day by day. When more information about his
friends was asked during the session. He said that he has only one friend and he does not feel
any need to make more friends. He has compromised with the situation. He likes to be alone
and does not want more friends, which is a risk factor for his deteriorating health.