MENTAL STATUS EXAMINATION

[Kapplan & Saddocks]

Patient
Appearance and Behavior
[adolescent/adult, build, stature,
dresses appropriately for
chronological age, in acute distress,
cooperative, agitated, disinhibited,
disinterested]
Motor Activity
[normal, slowed, agitated, tics, gait]
Speech
[normo-/hypo-/hyper- productive,
fluency, rate, tone, volume]
Mood
[patients own words, euthymic]
Affect
[quality, quantity, range,
appropriateness, congruence to
expressions]
Thought Content
[obsessions, compulsions, delusions,
preoccupations]
Suicidality and
Homicidality
Thought Process
[liner, organized, goal directed or
circumstantial, tangential, loose
thoughts, perseveration,
neologisms, word salad]
Perceptual Disturbances
[hallucinations, illusions,
depersonalizations, and
derealization]
Cognition
Alertness
Orientation
[time, place, person]
Concentration
[serial 7s, Dec to Jan]
Long and Short Memory
[what was for breakfast?, manga
mesa pera, childhood address]
Calculation
[Cost and change of buying candy
in the sari-sari store]
Fund of Knowledge
[3 island groups in the Philippines,
current and prior presidents]
Abstract Reasoning
[how are a car and tricycle alike?
Which does not belong to the
group and why: upuan, mesa,
tubig, proverb]
Insight
[understanding or feeling towards
the diagnosis, treatment, or
situation]
Judgment
[what would you do if you found
a lost wallet?]