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mental health
mental health screening
Term | Definition |
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mini-mental state examination 5 areas | orientation, registration, attention, calculation, and language. |
orientation | examiner asks the PT the date or season and where her present location is. |
registration | examiner names three unrelated objects and then asks the patient to repeat them. |
attention/calculation | examiner asks the PT to begin at 100 and count backward by 7, five times. |
recall | examiner asks the PT to name the three objects they used for the orientation step. |
language | examiner asks the PT to name and object he points to, such as clock; repeat a statement, such as, "time waits for no man."; follow a three-stage command. read a direction and follow it, write a sentence, & copy a design. |