Clinician`s Thesaurus The Guide to Conducting Interviews and Writting Psychological Reports

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I. Conducting a mental health evaluation 1. Beginning and ending the interview 2. Mental status evaluation questions /tasks 3. questions about signs, sympotms and other behavior pattrens Part II Standard terms and statements for wording psychological reports A. Introducing the report 4. Beginning the report: Priliminary information 5. Referral reasons 6.Background information and history B. The person in the evaluation 7. Behavioral observations 8.Responses to aspects of the examination 9. Presentation of self 10. Emotional/effective symptoms and disorders 11. Congition and mental status 12. Abnormal sign, symptoms and syndromes 13.personality patterns C. The person in the environment 14. Activities of daily living 15. Social/ community functioning 16.Couple and family relationships 17. Vocational/academic skills 18. Recreational functioning 19.Other specialized evaluations D. Completing the report 20.Summary of findings and conclusions 21. Diagnostic statement/impression 22. Recommendations 23. Progress statements 24. Closing statements Part III. Useful resources 25. Treatement planning and treatement plan formats 26. Formats for reports, evaluations, and summaries 27.Treatements for specific disorders and concerns 28. Listing of common psychiatric and psychoactiive drugs 29. Psychiatric masquerade of medical conditions.