What does a psychiatrist assess during each subsequent visit?

What does a psychiatrist assess during each subsequent visit?

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At subsequent visits, if it's primarily a medication treatment, the psychiatrist will be interested in a person's side effects to medications. They'll be interested in how their disorder is responding to treatment. To do this, there would be a collection of questions that would very likely be asked by the psychiatrist at each subsequent visit. If the treatment includes psychotherapy, then medication issues may be covered at the beginning or end of the session, but the bulk of the treatment period would be subsumed with dealing with the psychotherapy issues.