Psychiatric Evaluation
Psychiatric Evaluation
DSM-5 Mnemonics
Note: The numbers in parentheses reflect the number of criteria required for diagnosis out of the total possible criteria.
Defense Mechanisms
Appearance Terms
Affect Terms
Rapid IQ test, Wilson Rapid Approximate Intelligence Test
Data from Wilson, I. C. (1967). Rapid approximate intelligence test. American Journal of Psychiatry, 123, 1289–1290.
Heritability and Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders
aRelative risk figures from Reider, R. O., Kaufmann, C. A., and Knowles, J. A. (1994). Genetics. In R. E. Hales, S. C. Yudofsky, and J. A. Talbott (Eds.), American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press. See text for explanation.
bLifetime prevalence figures from Kessler, R. C., Berglund, P., Demler, O., et al. (2005). Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the national comorbidity survey replication. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62, 593–602.
cData from Hudson, J. L., Hiripi, E., Pope, H. G., et al. (2007). The prevalence and correlates of eating disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Biological Psychiatry, 61, 348–358.
Common DSM-5 Diagnoses
Age- and Education-adjusted Norms for the Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination (Mean Scores)
Data from Crum, R. M., Anthony, J. C., Bassett, S. S., and Folstein, M. F. (1993). Population-based norms for the Mini-Mental State Examination by age and educational level. Journal of the American Medical Association, 269, 2386–2391.