SCAN interview

[DrHappyM]

Hi

Has anyone experience with the SCAN interview? (schedules for clinical assessment in neuropsychiatry)
How is the an diagnosis made on the basis of the interview?

 

[Crayola227]

he wants to know how to fake getting an ADHD diagnosis and get meds for it

 

[MacDonaldTriad]

I hate check list psychiatry.

"Yes I really am hallucinating"
No you are not.
"I really am and if you don't admit me, I think I will become a danger to myself or to others."

 

[romanticscience]

The lost art of assessing reality testing.


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[DrHappyM]

yes - its a very good structured interview tool that's based on the present state examination and uses ICD-10 diagnoses. Much more interesting questions than the SCID.I'm not sure what you're asking. Diagnoses in psychiatry are based on clinical interview. The SCAN asks structured questions based on diagnostic criteria and diagnoses are made based on those diagnoses patients meet criteria for. you have to be trained in using it.

yes - its a very good structured interview tool that's based on the present state examination and uses ICD-10 diagnoses. Much more interesting questions than the SCID.I'm not sure what you're asking. Diagnoses in psychiatry are based on clinical interview. The SCAN asks structured questions based on diagnostic criteria and diagnoses are made based on those diagnoses patients meet criteria for. you have to be trained in using it.

 

[DrHappyM]

Thank you for the respons.
Yes, I know. But if you look a section 6 of the SCAN for example.
There are a lot of questions in the SCAN which are not included in the ICD-10 criteria for depression:

6.003: Do you often feel like crying?
Why is a question like this included in the SCAN?

 

[splik]

tearfulness is a symptom of dysthymia

btw. dx is made by putting all the information into the computer

 

[DrHappyM]

What if you dont have the program on the computer?