Unit quiz: Structure, questions, observation and instruments

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Question 1

A fictional trainee is asked to cut a first assessment from 60 to 30 minutes. She proposes keeping the opening, the structured symptom list and the risk questions, and dropping the narrative phase and the closing summary. A supervisor says the resulting interview will be cheaper to run and harder to read. What is the supervisor identifying?Without the narrative there is no basis for choosing which focused questions matter, and without the summary there is no chance for the person to correct the account, so the record will contain coverage that cannot be argued with.The proposal breaks the required order of an assessment, because the symptom list may only be completed after a closing summary has been read back and agreed.

Question 2

A fictional note reads: 'Presented as a 24-year-old man, unkempt, hostile, minimising, clearly substance-affected, poor insight.' A second clinician says she cannot tell what happened in the appointment. Using the reported-observed-inferred discipline, which correction best repairs the note?Translate every judgement into a standard mental status term, so that hostile becomes guarded affect and unkempt becomes reduced self-care, which converts the impressions into the technical language of the examination.Keep the concrete descriptions that could be checked - what he wore and how he spoke, what he actually said, in his words - and mark the judgements such as hostile or poor insight as inferences with the evidence they rest on, or remove them.

Question 3

A fictional 61-year-old woman has attended three appointments in English, chatting easily about her grandchildren, and has been assessed as not needing interpreting support. At the fourth appointment her daughter reports that her mother has been unable to describe her low mood in any language for two weeks and has stopped mentioning the nightmares. What does this sequence illustrate?That conversational fluency is a poor test of the ability to discuss clinical and emotional content, and that proficiency should be judged against the task and reviewed again as the person's state changes.That the daughter should be asked to interpret from now on, since she is the person best placed to know what her mother is unable to express.

Question 4

A fictional service decides that anyone scoring below a set cut-off on a symptom questionnaire at two consecutive appointments will be discharged from its depression pathway. A staff member objects. Which objection is best supported?Questionnaires cannot be used in services at all, because the research shows that structured instruments agree poorly with consensus assessment and therefore have no clinical role.The score has a defined role in informing and evaluating treatment rather than in establishing who has the condition, and its meaning depends on how common the condition is among the people being screened, so a cut-off cannot carry that decision on its own.

Question 5

A fictional team with severe staffing shortages proposes replacing all new assessments with a structured diagnostic interview administered by an administrative assistant, keeping a clinician for a brief review of each completed instrument. Which reply most accurately describes what the team is buying?Greater consistency in what is asked and in how it is recorded, at the cost of validity: published agreement between such instruments and best-estimate diagnosis in first-admission samples is poor, with sensitivities reported between roughly 19 and 46 per cent.Greater validity, because a fixed sequence of questions removes the clinician's own bias from the assessment, which is the source of disagreement between assessors.

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