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==== Case Paper Format Points ==== | ==== Case Paper Format Points ==== | ||
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The format for the clinical assessment of manovahasrotas or The psychiatric assessment | The format for the clinical assessment of ''manovahasrotas'' or The psychiatric assessment: | ||
Every psychiatric history should cover the following points: | Every psychiatric history should cover the following points: | ||
#Complaints | |||
#History of present illness | |||
#Previous disorders and the nature and extent of treatment. | |||
#Family history, important for genetic aspects and family influences, helping in understanding the familial traits. | |||
#Personal history: childhood development, adolescent adjustment, level of education and adult coping patterns. | |||
#Sexual history | |||
#Current life functioning | |||
#Current medications, alcohol or drug abuse | |||
#Personality: is defined as the sum of those characteristics that make a person into individual he is. These characteristics include behaviour, both actions and reactions; attitude to self; ways of relating to others, both socially and sexually, attitude to authority, level of independence, mood, fantasy life, religious beliefs and moral altitudes and interests and hobbies. | |||
The mental status examination | |||
===== The mental status examination ===== | |||
#Appearance: note unusual modes of dress, use of makeup etc. very helpful for evaluation of ''bhootonmada'' and ''vataja unmada'' | |||
#Activity and behavior: Gait, gestures, co-ordination of bodily movements. ''akshibhruvaushthamsahanvagrahastapadangavikshepanamakasmat'' | |||
#Affect: outward manifestation of emotion such as depression, anger, fear or lack of emotional response eg. ''krodha, sudeen'' | |||
#Mood: the patients report of feelings and observable emotional manifestations eg. ''rahasyakamata, narivivikta priyata, amarsha'' | |||
#Speech: coherence, spontaneity, articulation, hesitancy in answering and duration and response. Eg. ''vaka mandam pratihatavacchyam'' | |||
#Content of thought: Association, obsession, depersonalization, delusions, hallucinations, Paranoid, ideation, anger, fear or unusual experiences. Eg. ''amartya vaka vikrama virya cheshta dnyanadi vidnyan baladibhi'' | |||
#Cognition: | |||
##Orientation to person, place, time and circumstances. | |||
##Remote and recent memory and recall | |||
##Calculation | |||
##General knowledge | |||
##Ability to identify by naming, reading and writing | |||
##Right to Left differentiation | |||
##Judgment regarding common sense problems | |||
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