DISTURBANCE IN FLOW OF THOUGHT

Question 1

New words created by the client

Answer 1

Neologism

Question 2

Incoherent mixture of words and phrases

Answer 2

Word salad

Question 3

It’s when you include a lot of unnecessary and insignificant details in your conversation or writing. This takes away from the main point of what you’re saying.

Answer 3

Circumstantiality

Question 4

Tangentiality

Answer 4

Inability to have goal directed association of thoughts, never gets to the point

Question 5

Incoherence

Answer 5

Many thoughts running together with no association

Question 6

Perserveration

Answer 6

Excessive repetition of the same word or idea in response to different questions

Question 7

Flight of ideas

Answer 7

Shifting from one idea to the next

Question 8

Clang associations

Answer 8

Verbalizes words similar in sounds but not in meaning

Question 9

Thought blocking

Answer 9

Interruption in train of thinking

Question 10

Pressure of speech

Answer 10

Voluble speech which is difficult to interupt

Question 11

Some of what the person makes sense and some ideas do not

Answer 11

Loosening of associations

Question 12

Client unable to respond to questions and blankly stares

Answer 12

Paucity of thought

Question 13

Restriction in amount of speech

Answer 13

Poverty of speech