Mental Health Assessment Assignment
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Mental HealthAssessment
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Section 1...........................................................................................................................................1Section 2...........................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTIONMental health assessment provides the complete view of the emotional sate of the person.It also provides the full examination of the person in respect to how well it thinks, rememberthings. Present report is based mental status assessment of an individual. The assessment is basedon level of consciousness, general appearance, behaviour, mood, speech, thought, Intellectualperformance, perception, judgement, insight etc. Further, clinical assessment is done of all thesessituations. Recovery Focused Nursing Care Plan is made in which two goals are identified.Moreover, goals are ranked according to their priority and the assessment is done for improvingtheir mental status.Section 1Level of consciousness:Clinical assessment:Level of consciousness is the state in which the person react to stimuli from theenvironment. In this state, different status of the person are checked (Långsjö & et.al., 2016).This includes alertness, wakefulness, awareness etc. Assessment questions:What are the problems faced by the patient?They face the problem of confused state, Lethargic in which it falling back to sleep.Further, it faces the problem of forgetfulness of the things, and difficulty in speaking. What analysis you have made from this situation?During level of consciousness state, the patients is unresponsive and unhappy. It has toface the problem of anxiousness in which it takes tensions and become nervous and depressed(Boccagni & et.al., 2016).General appearance:Clinical assessment:The patients general appearance plays an important role in telling its physical condition.It can be determined by the physicians when they enter the room and talk with them. They canbetter analyse the situation of the patients by observing its facial features, expressions, quality ofvoice etc. They can resolve their problem by analysing their situation and providing the besttreatment according to their problem (Imam & et.al., 2017). Assessment questions:1
By which symptoms the physicians can determine their problems?By observing the facial expression and way of talking of the person, they can easily canfind out the level of the problem that patients are facing (Haid & et.al., 2016). How to provide the best treatment? By analysing the patients reports and their general appearance can help the doctor toprovide the treatment. BehaviourClinical assessment:Problematic and adaptive behaviour of the patients are assessed in clinical assessment ofbehaviour. It includes clinical scale in which internalising, critical and externalising behaviourare measured (Tully & et.al., 2017). It can be made normal by assessing the aggressive, bullyingbehaviour of the patients.Assessment questions:What are the areas measured to know the overall behaviour of the person?Adaptive scale which include adaptive behaviour, competence and social skills of thepatient. Further, depression level, anxiety, mental retardation are analysed (Vargas & et.al.,2016).What analysis can be drawn from this situation?The person mental status can be analysed by observing its behaviour. Patients situaioncan be determined whether the person is normal or abnormal. Mood and effect:Clinical assessment:Mood of the people plays an important role in their treatment. They take treatment on thebasis of their mood. Mental preparation of the patient for taking the treatment is very necessary.Further, physician can help them to mentally prepare so that they can recover fast from theirproblems (Baranik & Eby, 2016).Assessment questions:How physicians can mentally prepare their patients?Doctors can guide the after effects of the treatment so that patients cannot be worriedfrom the ill effect of the operations and medicines.What problems do the patients face while motivating themselves?2
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