The purpose of this assignment is to review a clinical assessment video, and to complete a Mental State Examination based on a consumer presentation that you observe. It is important to incorporate information obtained by the clinician and the consumer’s own words as they describe the personal impact and symptoms of their mental illness during the assessment video.

Assessment Task:

Complete a Mental State Examination and Risk Assessment using the answer template provided.

In completing this assignment it is expected students consider:

The assessment rubric.

The questions asked by the clinician

The responses provided by the consumer

What types of questions are asked?

What are there the possible risk issues (using examples from the video)?

The students’ own observation of the consumer and their behaviours.

Instructions to students:

On Monday 6th September at 9:00AM a video link and answer template for this assessment item will be made available on the Mental Health Learn online course site in the Assessment 2 OSCA tab. Students will be able to watch the video several times to assist in completing this assignment. The video will be accessible for students to view from Monday 6th September 9:00AM until Friday 10th September 5:00PM.

No references are required.

This OSCA is equivalent to one hour. This does not mean that students have to take one hour to complete the assessment.

This OSCA assessment is an individual piece of work, which means that students are not allowed to collaborate on this assessment item.

You may find that some information that you may have liked to access is missing – Students can use their own experiences and understanding of Mental Health to complete sections where information appears to be missing so long as this is in context of the clinical presentation.