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  2. Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms - Wikipedia

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    The Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) is a rating scale that mental health professionals use to measure negative symptoms in schizophrenia. Negative symptoms are those conspicuous by their absence—lack of concern for one's appearance, and lack of language and communication skills, for example.

  3. Psychiatric assessment - Wikipedia

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    A nursing assessment includes risk assessment (risk of suicide, aggression, absconding from hospital, self-harm, sexual safety in hospital and medication compliance), physical health screening, and obtaining background personal and health information from the person being admitted and their carers.

  4. Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS) [note 1] is a collection of psychiatric diagnostic criteria and symptom rating scales originally published in 1978. [1] It is organized as a semi-structured diagnostic interview.

  5. Mental status examination - Wikipedia

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    The mental status examination (MSE) is an important part of the clinical assessment process in neurological and psychiatric practice. It is a structured way of observing and describing a patient's psychological functioning at a given point in time, under the domains of appearance, attitude, behavior, mood and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight, and ...

  6. Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia

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    The Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (K-SADS) is a semi-structured interview aimed at early diagnosis of affective disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder. There are different versions of the test that have use different versions of diagnostic criteria, cover somewhat different diagnoses and ...

  7. Diagnosis of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Estimates of the heritability of schizophrenia is around 80%, which implies that 80% of the individual differences in risk to schizophrenia is explained by individual differences in genetics. [54] Although many genetic variants associated with schizophrenia have been identified, their effects are usually very small, so they are combined onto a ...

  8. Mental health nursing - Wikipedia

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    Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the appointed position of a nurse that specialises in mental health, and cares for people of all ages experiencing mental illnesses or distress. These include: neurodevelopmental disorders , schizophrenia , schizoaffective disorder , mood disorders , addiction , anxiety disorders , personality ...

  9. Clinical global impression - Wikipedia

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    The clinical global impression – severity scale (CGI-S) is a 7-point scale that requires the clinician to rate the severity of the patient's illness at the time of assessment, relative to the clinician's past experience with patients who have the same diagnosis. Clinicians ask: "Considering your total clinical experience with this particular ...