SOCW 6090 Mental Status Examination for Carl Mental Status Examination for Carl (Transcript) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adwOxj1o7po https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdmG739KFF8 So in this section, we’re going to watch a mental status examination with a young man named Carl. This is a general check in. He was referred because of some odd ideation and bizarre behaviors. So his vocationalinstructors and educators were a little bit concerned. JOHN SOMMERS-FLANAGAN: A traditional mental status examination includes about nine domains. And the first three– appearance, behavior or psychomotor activity, and attitudes toward the interviewer orexaminer– are always just inferred. In other words, you just observe the clients and then you make some inferences about those three categories. The remaining six categories are usually assessed in a little bit more of adirect way. And these other six categories include affect and mood together, speech and thought together, perceptual disturbances, orientation and consciousness, memory and intelligence, as well as reliability, judgment, and insight. RITA SOMMERS-FLANAGAN: As I look at that list, it seems to me that the client’s speech is something more inferred or observed. JOHN SOMMERS-FLANAGAN: I think you’re right. It’s usually inferred or observed more indirectly also. Although in the upcoming interview, I accidentally forgot to ask one of the speech assessment items, which isto ask Carl to repeat after me– no ifs, ands, or buts. […]