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Psychiatric •
Mental Health
Lippincott’sVideoGuideto
Psychiatric-MentalHealthNursing
Assessment
LippincottWilliams&Wilkins
This videooffers nursing students an introduction topsychiatric health
history takingandmental status examination,witha focusoneffective
communication, appropriate techniques, and expected findings.
Delivered via thePoint, this fifty-minute video is organized into two
major segments: approach to the health history interview and how to
conductacomprehensivemental statusexamination, includingtestsfor
appearance, behavior, speech and language, manner, mood, thoughts,
and cognitive functions.Thevideodepicts responses frompatients that
are representative of common psychiatric problems. Cultural, ethnic,
anddevelopmental diversityare reflected throughout the cast.
978-1-60831-147-7 • Institutional VersiononDVD •March2009