Disturbance in Affect Flashcards
Disharmony between the stimulus and the emotional reaction.
Inappropriate Affect
Severe reduction in emotional reaction.
Blunted Affect
Absence or near absence of emotional/facial reaction that would indicate emotions or mood.
Flat affect
Feelings of indifference toward people, activities, and events.
Apathy
Holding seemingly contradictory beliefs or feelings about the same person, event or situation.
Presence of two opposing feelings.
Ambivalence
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
Derealization
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.
Depersonalization