Mental status assessment of insight and judgment. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Although a traditional part of the mental status examination, assessment of insight and judgment has received scant attention from researchers and clinicians. This is unfortunate, because few abilities are more crucial to decisions about whether a patient can continue to live independently or what level of supervision is needed. The authors discuss current and evolving methods for the assessment of insight and judgment, and also address neuroanatomic substrates and theoretical conceptions of these functions.

publication date

  • August 1, 1989

Research

keywords

  • Aged
  • Judgment
  • Mental Processes

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0024318868

PubMed ID

  • 2680029

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 5

issue

  • 3