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Assessment Instruments for Personality Disorders

Cognitive therapy uses both categorical and dimensional measures for the assessment of normal and abnormal personalities. Categorical measures, such as structured clinical interviews to determine and document the presence or absence of an Axis II disorder (e.g., SCID-II; First, Spitzer, Gibbon, Williams, & Benjamin, 1994), are often required in clinical and research settings (Beck et […]

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Routine Perinatal Mental Health Assessment

Evidence indicates that many women fail to identify themselves as depressed or to seek help (Murray, Woolgar, Murray,& Cooper, 2003). Sadly, not all health-care providers will identify their condition.As most women will access obstetric, midwifery, nursing or paediatric care during pregnancy or post natally, an ideal opportunity exists to ensure that mental as well as […]

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How to do psychiatric assessment

There is a myth that psychiatric assessment differs from that in other medical specialties: it does not, it follows the familiar sequence of history, examination (both mental state and physical) and investigation, leading to differential diagnosis. Another myth holds that management cannot proceed without obtaining an extensive history that delves into all aspects of a […]

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