Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment Interview
What is Psychiatric Interview?
A psychiatric assessment interview is a set of structured topics or questions that a mental health clinician uses in order to arrive at a possible diagnosis and formulate a management plan.
It lays out the topics that needed to be covered but the flow of the assessment largely depends on what information has been given by a patient or what topic a patient prefers to discuss.
What is special in our psychiatric assessment?
A child's mental health assessment and interview is usually longer and more complicated than an adult psychiatric assessment; with much time given to both children and parents alike. It covers several areas in much more detail and can be specially exhausting if good rapport is not established.
This module contains:
a) Topics that are likely to be covered in the interview.
b) Forms which can be filled in to help prepare for the interview and subsequently save in a PDF format.
c) Forms can also be saved and continued at later date. It is recommended however that files are downloaded in PDF format first because "save and continue" depends on the server and membership privileges for access.