"The client was oriented x 3, made appropriate eye contact, but had pressured speech and poor insight." The preceding summary might very well have been taken from:

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The Mental Status Exam is the source of the summary, since it contains questions pertaining to orientation, insight, movement, speech, and thought content. While these other inventories and summaries can be helpful in providing essential information, only the status exam contains questions regarding orientation. While it might also be common to find the status exam incorporated into summaries, it may be less accurate, since they are only taken in the beginning.

"The Client Was Oriented X 3, Made Appropriate Eye Contact