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What is involved in a psychiatric evaluation?

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Tom Pennybacker, consultant psychiatrist in London, talks about the typical process of a patient’s psychiatric evaluation, including assessing their backgound and sometimes discussing issues with family or friends. https://www.thechelseapsychologyclinic.com Chelsea Psychology Clinic are a group of London psychologists and psychiatrists offering private psychological therapy and psychiatry treatment from their premises across central London and Chelsea. The private therapy sessions cover the following areas: – Acceptance & Commitment Therapy – Cognitive Analytic Therapy – Cognitive-behavioural Therapy – Couples Therapy – Dialectical-behaviour Therapy – Mentalisation Based Treatment – Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy – Schema Therapy

Video Transcription

A psychiatric evaluation is a clinical interview between the patient, sometimes their family or friends, as well and the psychiatrist, to try to make sense of both the difficulties that they’re having in the here and now. And possibly any background difficulties that have been around prior to that.

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Dr Tom Pennybacker

Dr Tom Pennybacker

19 June 2022

"Dr Tom Pennybacker is a Consultant Psychiatrist and psychotherapist with many years’ experience working in the NHS and private sector. In the NHS he was the clinical lead for a team delivering complex psychiatric and psychological care to people with severe mental disorders. He has extensive experience of assessing and treating a wide range of mental health difficulties with medications and psychotherapy."

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