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Desired Clinical Skills for Students to Achieve

Confident

Mostly confident (Can complete with supervision)

Beginning (Have performed with supervision or needs supervision to feel confident)

New (Have never performed or does not apply)

Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation skills in:

Recognizing clinical signs and symptoms of psychiatric illness across the lifespan

Independently

Differentiating between pathophysiological and psychopathological conditions

Supervision

Performing and interpreting a comprehensive and/or interval history and physical examination (including laboratory and diagnostic studies)

Supervision

Performing and interpreting a mental status examination

Independently

Performing and interpreting a psychosocial assessment and family psychiatric history

Needs supervision to feel confident in performing and interpreting a psychosocial assessment and family psychiatric history

Performing and

Supervision

interpreting a functional assessment (activities of daily living, occupational, social, leisure, educational).

Diagnostic reasoning skill in:

Developing and prioritizing a differential diagnoses list

Supervision

Formulating diagnoses according to DSM 5-TR based on assessment data

Supervision

Differentiating between normal/abnormal age-related physiological and psychological symptoms/changes

Supervision

Pharmacotherapeutic skills in:

Selecting appropriate evidence based clinical practice guidelines for medication plan (e.g., risk/benefit, patient preference, developmental considerations, financial, the process of informed consent, symptom management)

Supervision

Evaluating patient response and

Supervision

modify plan as necessary

Documenting (e.g., adverse reaction, the patient response, changes to the plan of care)

Independently

Psychotherapeutic Treatment Planning:

Recognizes concepts of therapeutic modalities across the lifespan

Supervision

Selecting appropriate evidence based clinical practice guidelines for psychotherapeutic plan (e.g., risk/benefit, patient preference, developmental considerations, financial, the process of informed consent, symptom management, modality appropriate for situation)

Supervision

Applies age appropriate psychotherapeutic counseling techniques with individuals and/or any caregivers

Independently

Develop an age appropriate individualized plan

Independently

of care

Provide psychoeducation to individuals and/or any caregivers

Independently

Promote health and disease prevention techniques

Independently

Self-assessment skill:

Develop SMART goals for practicum experiences

Independently

Evaluating outcomes of practicum goals and modify plan as necessary

Supervision

Documenting and reflecting on learning experiences

Independently

Professional skills:

Maintains professional boundaries and therapeutic relationship with clients and staff

Independently

Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to improve clinical practice in mental health settings

Requires supervision to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to improve clinical practice in mental health settings

Identifies ethical and legal dilemmas with possible resolutions

Supervision

Demonstrates non-judgmental practice approach

Independently

and empathy

Practices within scope of practice

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Supervision

Selecting and implementing appropriate screening instrument(s), interpreting results, and making recommendations and referrals:

Demonstrates selecting the correct screening instrument appropriate for the clinical situation

Supervision

Implements the screening instrument efficiently and effectively with the clients

Requires supervision to implement the screening instrument efficiently and effectively with the clients

Interprets results for screening instruments accurately

Independently interprets results for screening instruments accurately

Supervision

Develops an appropriate plan of care based upon screening instruments response

Supervision

Identifies the need to refer to another specialty provider when applicable

Independence

Accurately document recommendations for psychiatric consultations when applicable

Independently

Patient evaluation skills- I have excellent patient evaluation skills and am able to conduct a full accurate and dependable patient analysis before delivery of care.

Self-assessment skills- I have the necessary skills to be able to gauge myself and my level of skill in the field. I am able to set goals towards improving my clinical skills.

Empathy- I am able to listen to patients’ problems without judging them and instead feeling empathy towards them and therefore able to put in the extra effort to help them to the best of my ability.

Professional skills- practical experiences will help me improve my professional skills while in the health care setting

Screening skills- working with screening instruments more will help me become more familiar on how to implement them for an effective and efficient interaction with clients

Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation skills- working with more clients and under supervision will help improve my comprehensive psychiatric evaluation skills and also improve my functional assessment skills

Interpersonal and intrapersonal skills- interacting with more colleagues and clients inside and outside the workplace will help build my interpersonal and intrapersonal skills for a better clinical assessment

Goal: Improve my professional skills

Objective: Work with professionals in my field

Objective: Collaborate with other professionals in different fields

Objective: To successfully carry out a functional assessment

Goal: Improve my screening skills

Objective: Offer to work under people who are familiar with the working of screening

instruments

Objective: Attend trainings on the use of the various screening instruments

Objective: Practice acquired screening skills on clients while under supervision

Goal: improve my interpersonal and intrapersonal skills

Objective: Avail myself of events that offer chances to meet people working in my field

Objective: Conclusively make an assessment while maintaining client boundaries

Objective: Read more content on clinical skills and practice it in the clinical setting