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Psychiatric • Mental Health
Lippincott’s Video Guide to Psychiatric-Mental Health
Nursing Assessment
Lippincott Williams &Wilkins
This video offers nursing students an introduction to psychiatric health
history taking and mental status examination, with a focus on effective
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
conduct a comprehensive mental status examination, including tests for
appearance, behavior, speech and language, manner, mood, thoughts,
and cognitive functions. The video depicts responses from patients that
are representative of common psychiatric problems. Cultural, ethnic,
and developmental diversity are reflected throughout the cast.
978-1-60831-147-7 • Institutional Version on DVD • March 2009