Diagnostic Assessment

• Welcome
• Basics
• Components
• Standard
• Extended
• Adult Update
• Brief
• Scenarios
• Substance Use Screening
• Post-test

Brief

Unlike in the standard, extended, and adult update not all the components under reason for assessment are included in the brief. The brief focuses on the following:

• Description of symptoms, including reason for referral
• The client’s mental status examination
• The screenings used to determine the client’s substance use, abuse, or dependency and other standardized screening instruments determined by the commissioner
• Provisional diagnostic hypothesis
• Axis 5

Print a DA components chart. This is the same chart you were introduced to in chapter 4.