| Appearance | Grooming, hygiene, posture, and eye contact; correlation between appearance, developmental stage, and age. |
| General Attitude | Cooperative, uncooperative, friendly, hostile, defensive, guarded, apathetic. |
| Mood | Depressed, sad, anxious, fearful, labile, irritable, elated, euphoric, guilty, despairing. |
| Motor Activity | Tremors, tics, mannerisms, gestures, gait, hyperactivity, restlessness, agitation, echopraxia, rigidity, aggressiveness. |
| Sensory/Perceptual Disturbances | Hallucinations (auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, gustatory). Illusions (depersonalization, derealization). |
| Affect | Congruent with mood, flat, inappropriate. |
| Cognitive | Alertness, orientation, memory, abstract thinking. |
| Speech Pattern | Aphasia, volume, impairments, stuttering. |
| Thought Process | Form of Thought: Tangentiality, word salads, neologisms, echolalia, attention span. Content of Thought: Delusional, suicidal, homicidal, obsessive, paranoid, suspicious, religiosity-based, phobic, magical. |
| Impulse Control | Aggression, fear, guilt, affection, sexual. |
| Judgment/Insight | Decision making, problem solving, coping. |