Disturbance in Affect Flashcards

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Disharmony between the stimulus and the emotional reaction.

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Inappropriate Affect

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2
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Severe reduction in emotional reaction.

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Blunted Affect

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Absence or near absence of emotional/facial reaction that would indicate emotions or mood.

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Flat affect

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4
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Feelings of indifference toward people, activities, and events.

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Apathy

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5
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Holding seemingly contradictory beliefs or feelings about the same person, event or situation.

Presence of two opposing feelings.

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Ambivalence

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6
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Feeling of strangeness towards the environment

Environmental object become smaller, larger, or seem unfamiliar

Individual feels that the outside world has changed

Everything may seem gray and dull

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Derealization

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7
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Clients feel detached from their behavior

Feelings of strangeness towards oneself

Although client can state name correctly, he feels as if his body belongs to someone else, or that his spirit is detached from his body.

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Depersonalization

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