Clinical tools

Assessment Templates

General Psychiatric Consultation

📁 Comprehensive assessment form

📁 Geriatric consult

One-page concise assessment form

Mental Status Exam

General Psychiatric Consultation

📁 Template with guiding questions

📁 Template with explanations

The mnemonic ASEPTIC can be used to remember components of the MSE:

Appearance/Behaviour
Speech
Emotion (Mood and Affect)
Perceptual Disturbances
Thought Content and Form
Insight and Judgement
Cognition

Biopsychosocial Formulation

General Psychiatric Consultation

Biopsychosocial Formulation

📁 Formulation using the 4P's

📁 Sample formulation script

Psychometric Scales

Depression

Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)

21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory, Designed for individuals aged 13 and over.

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Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)

9-question instrument to screen for the presence and severity of depression.

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Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D)

Clinician-rated scale.

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Montgomery–Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)

Clinician-rated, 10-item diagnostic questionnaire to measure the severity of depressive episodes.

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Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (QIDS-C)

16-item rating of depressive symptoms.

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🔗 Download (QIDS-SR patient version)

Bipolar

Depression

Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS)

Most frequently utilized took to assess manic symptoms, looking at subjective concerns and clinical observations.

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Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ)

Self-rated screen for Bipolar Spectrum Disorders (BID, BIID, and unspecified).

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Bush-Francis Catatonia Rating Scale Ratings based on the observed behaviours during the examination and patient interview. 🔗 Download

Psychosis

Depression

Anxiety & Related

Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)

Clinician-based rating, from 1 to 7 on 30 different symptoms based on the patient assessment. Typically takes at least 45 minutes.

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Calgary Depression Scale in Schizophrenia

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Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (KSADS)

Semi-structured diagnostic interview designed to assess for mood and psychotic disorders in children 6 - 18 yrs old.

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Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) Consensus Cognitive Battery

10 individually administered tests that measure cognitive performance in seven domains.

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Anxiety & Related

Child & Adolescent

Anxiety & Related

Liebowitz Social Anxiety

24-item measure of social anxiety.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7)

7-item self-reported questionnaire for screening and a severity measure.

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Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)

21-question self-report inventory for screening and a severity measure.

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Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)

Most widely used rating scale for OCD. Symptom severity rated from 0 to 4.

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PTSD

30-item structured interview, gold standard in PTSD assessment. Assists in PTSD dx and symptom severity.

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Panic Disorder Severity Scale

Brief, clinician rating scale developed to measure severity of panic symptoms.

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Child & Adolescent

Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED)

Patient and parent rating for childhood SAD, GAD, PD, separation anxiety and school avoidance.

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Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS)

6-item self-report screen for adolescent depressive symptoms.

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Weiss Symptom Record II

Assesses ADHD symptoms, as well as other psychiatric symptoms that children and adolescents may experience. For caregivers.

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ADHD Checklist

Surveys inattentive and hyperactive/ impulsivity symptoms based on DSM-5 criteria. Can be completed by the patient or collateral informant.

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ADHD SNAP-IV

26-item rating scale for parents or teachers.

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Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale

Patient-rated, 18-item checklist based on DSM-IV criteria.

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Autism Diagnostic Tools

🔗 ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule)

🔗 ADI-R (Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised)

Older Adult

Child & Adolescent

Mini-Cog

Quick screening instrument that consists of a 3-item recall test for memory and a clock drawing test.

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Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

Cognitive screening test designed to assist in the detection of cognitive impairment. Cut off score ≤ 25 (total 30).

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Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)

11-question scale that examines: orientation, registration, attention and calculation, recall, and language. Cut off score ≤ 23 (total 30).

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Geriatric Depression Scale

30-item, Y/N questionnaire to assess for depression in older adults.

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Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)

Assessment tool for delirium

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Medication-induced

Substance and Alcohol

Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS)

12-item clinician-scored scale to assess for tardive dyskinesia.

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Extrapyramidal Symptom Rating Scale

Assess for parkinsonism, akathisia, dystonia, and tardive dyskinesia. High inter-rater reliability.

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Simpson Angus Scale

Scale for antipsychotic-induced parkinsonism.

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Barnes Akathisia scale

To screen for medication-induced akathisia.

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Substance and Alcohol

WHO Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)

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Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST)

Screening tool for drugs of abuse, not including alcohol.

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Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessement for Alcohol revised (CIWA-Ar)

Monitoring tool for alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

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Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Scale (COWS)

Monitoring tool for opioid withdrawal.

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Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale (PAWSS)

Tool for the prediction of alcohol withdrawal among patients at risk; score of 4 or more is positive.

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Other

Substance and Alcohol

Other

Canadian Guidelines for Forensic Psychiatry Assessment and Report Writing

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Historical Clinical Risk Management–20 (HCR-20)

Clinical approach to risk assessment in the forensic and psychiatric setting.

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Fitness Interview Test-Revised (FIT-R)

Screen for fitness to stand trial

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Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 (SCID-5)

Semi-structured interview guide for making the major DSM-5 diagnoses.

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Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale

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Epworth Sleepiness Scale

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Clinical Global Impression (CGI) Scales

3-item observer-rated scale that measures illness severity , global improvement or change and therapeutic response.

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Key Textbook Resources

DSM-5

Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Describe

Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Describe

Stahl's Prescriber Guide

Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Long-term Psychodynamic Therapy (Basic Text)

Describe

Long-term Psychodynamic Therapy (Basic Text)

Describe

Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs

Long-term Psychodynamic Therapy (Basic Text)

Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs

Describe

Mind Over Mood (CBT)

Long-term Psychodynamic Therapy (Basic Text)

Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs

Describe

Simple Psych

Clinical and academic resources for psychiatry learners and clinicians.

Clinical Tools

Assessment Templates

General Psychiatric Consultation

General Psychiatric Consultation

General Psychiatric Consultation

Mental Status Exam

General Psychiatric Consultation

General Psychiatric Consultation

Biopsychosocial Formulation

General Psychiatric Consultation

Biopsychosocial Formulation

Treatment Plan Templates

Common Clinical Presentations

Common Clinical Presentations

Common Clinical Presentations

Pharmacological Treatments

Common Clinical Presentations

Common Clinical Presentations

Psychometric Scales

Depression

Depression

Depression

Bipolar

Depression

Depression

Psychosis

Depression

Anxiety & Related

Anxiety & Related

Child & Adolescent

Anxiety & Related

Child & Adolescent

Child & Adolescent

Child & Adolescent

Older Adult

Child & Adolescent

Child & Adolescent

Medication-induced

Substance and Alcohol

Substance and Alcohol

Substance and Alcohol

Substance and Alcohol

Substance and Alcohol

Other

Substance and Alcohol

Other

Key Textbook Resources

DSM-5

Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Stahl's Prescriber Guide

Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Long-term Psychodynamic Therapy (Basic Text)

Long-term Psychodynamic Therapy (Basic Text)

Long-term Psychodynamic Therapy (Basic Text)

Long-term Psychodynamic Therapy (Basic Text)

Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs

Long-term Psychodynamic Therapy (Basic Text)

Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs

Mind Over Mood (CBT)

Long-term Psychodynamic Therapy (Basic Text)

Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs

DBT Skills Training Manual

Geriatric Psychiatry Review and Exam Preparation

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Geriatric Psychiatry Review and Exam Preparation

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Geriatric Psychiatry Review and Exam Preparation

Geriatric Psychiatry Review and Exam Preparation

Geriatric Psychiatry Review and Exam Preparation