Paeds Vivas · mental-behavioural-and-psychosomatic
Mental state examination in children and adolescents — branching viva
Branching structured oral on the conditions for the examination, the seven domains, developmental adaptation, validated screens, a positive mood and suicide finding, a medical mimic, and confidentiality.
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Prompt
You are the paediatric registrar. The examiner will move from setting up the examination to the seven domains, to developmental adaptation, to a positive mood screen and suicide-risk finding, to an acute medical mimic, and to confidentiality.
Stem
The examiner will test whether you can set up and run a developmentally appropriate mental state examination under pressure, and act on what you find. [7] [8]
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