Unit 5A Discussion – Due 5/05/2019. S15.00 Mental Status Exam and Suicide Risk Assessment Have you had the opportunity to conduct or observe an MSE and/or suicide risk assessment? ·

Unit 5A Discussion – Due 5/05/2019. S15.00 Mental Status Exam and Suicide Risk Assessment Have you had the opportunity to conduct or observe an MSE and/or suicide risk assessment? · If so, provide a summary of your reactions. · If not, discuss with your supervisor how you might find such an opportunity. Provide a summary of your concerns, fears, and anticipations for when you do observe or conduct your first assessment. In addition, consider the following after watching the Mental Status Exam video from this unit’s studies: · are your observations of the fluidity of the mental status exam? · Does the exam present as less or more structured than anticipated? · specific questions or observations are noted to collect information specific to the mental status exam? · How does rapport-building occur? · are the basic attending skills you noticed? Read the following: · Read Granello’s 2010 article, ” ,” in the volume 88, issue 3, pages 363–371. · Read Polanski and nkle’s 2000 article, ” ,” in the , volume 78, issue 3, pages 357–364. This article introduces the different contexts in which this exam is given.