This PedsCases Note provides a template for the Psychiatric Evaluation. It was created by Annabelle Wong, a medical student at the University of Alberta, with the help of Dr. Heidi Wilkes, a Pediatric Psychiatrist at the University of Alberta.

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References:

1.Forrest J, Shortridge A. History and Mental Status Examination. Medscape [Internet]. 2020 Sep 24 [cited 2021 Jun 13]; Available from: https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/293402-overview

2.Alberta Health Services. CanREACH Resources and Information for Primary Care Providers (and their patients) [Internet]. Calgary; 2019 Oct [cited 2021 Jun 17]. Available from: https://wp.hmhc.ca/canreach/canreach-alumni/ 

3.McCaffrey ESN, Chang S, Farrelly G, Rahman A, Cawthorpe D. Mental health literacy in primary care: Canadian Research and Education for the Advancement of Child Health (CanREACH). Evidence-Based Medicine. 2017;22(4). 

4.Voss R, M Das J. Mental Status Examination. In: StatPearls [Internet] [Internet]. Treasure Island: StatPearls Publishing; 2020 [cited 2021 Jul 2]. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546682/

5.Lempp T, de Lange D, Radeloff D, Bachmann C. The Clinical Examination of Children, Adolescents and Their Families. In: JM Rey’s IACAPAP e-Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Geneva: International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions; 2019.