Your 52 year old post-menopausal patient has unexplained physical symptoms that you can find no organic reasons for- chronic fatigue, confusion, mental slowness, poor recall, and sleep disturbances. You want to perform a selective mental health screening to see if the symptoms could be related to mental health disorder. Your office does not have a form for a mental health screening and you find that many of the developed tools for this purpose are copyrighted and cannot be used without permission.
1. Develop a tool that begins with a list of brief screening questions (at least 10) that would help identify patients at risk.
2. Discuss how your questions would help you identify if the patient above is at risk for a mental health disorder.
3. Would the screening questions you wrote help identify a new diagnosis of Schizophrenia or Borderline Personality?
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