Exam 4: Mental Health

Question 1

• Invented or distorted words, or words with new and highly idiosyncratic meanings.
• Observed in schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, and aphasia.

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Neologisms

Question 2

Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

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Avoidant

Question 3

Defective articulation

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Dysarthria

Question 4

• Persistent repetition of words or ideas.
• Occurs in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.

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Perseveration

Question 5

Submissive and clinging behavior related to an excessive need to be taken care of

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Dependent

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Awareness that symptoms or disturbed behaviors are normal or abnormal; for example, distinguishing between daydreams and hallucinations that seem real.

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Insight

Question 7

• Speech that is incomprehensible and illogical, with lack of meaningful connections, abrupt changes in topic, or disordered grammar or word use.
• Flight of ideas, when severe, may produce it.
• Seen in severe psychotic disturbances (usually schizophrenia).

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Incoherence

Question 8

Is a disorder of language.

Has abnormalities of spontaneous speech:

• Hesitancies and gaps in the flow and rhythm of words
• Disturbed inflections, such as a monotone
• Circumlocutions, in which phrases or sentences are substituted for a word the person cannot think of, such as “what you write with” for “pen”
• Paraphasias, in which words are malformed (“I write with a den”), wrong (“I write with a bar”), or invented (“I write with a dar”).

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Aphasia

Question 9

• The mildest thought disorder, consisting of speech with unnecessary detail, indirection, and delay in reaching the point.
• Some topics may have a meaningful connection.
• Many people without mental disorders have this.

Occurs in people with obsessions.

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Circumstantiality

Question 10

• Repetition of the words and phrases of others.
• Occurs in manic episodes and schizophrenia.

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Echolalia

Question 11

Assessed by vocabulary, fund of information, abstract thinking, calculations, construction of objects that have two or three dimensions

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Higher cognitive functions

Question 12

Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control

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Obsessive– compulsive

Question 13

Excessive emotionality and attention seeking

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Histrionic

Question 14

What are the 5 components of the mental health examination?

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1. Appearance and behavior
2. Speech and language
3. Mood
4. Thoughts and perceptions
5. Cognitive function
   
   • Orientation, attention, memory, attention, and higher cognitive functions (information and vocab, calculations, abstract thinking, and constructional ability)

Question 15

A more pervasive and sustained emotion that colors the person’s perception of the world. (Affect is to __ as weather is to climate.)

May be euthymic (in the normal range), elevated, or dysphoric (unpleasant, possibly as sad, anxious, or irritable), for example.

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Mood

Question 16

Sensory awareness of objects in the environment and their interrelationships (external stimuli); also refers to internal stimuli such as dreams or hallucinations.

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Perceptions

Question 17

• Sudden interruption of speech in mid-sentence or before the idea is completed, attributed to “losing the thought.”
• Occurs in normal people.
• May be striking in schizophrenia.

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Blocking

Question 18

Impaired volume, quality, or pitch of the voice

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Dysphonia

Question 19

The logic, coherence, and relevance of the patient’s thought as it leads to selected goals; how people think

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Thought processes

Question 20

Wernicke aphasia

Impaired comprehension with fluent speech

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Receptive aphasia

Question 21

Awareness of personal identity, place, and time; requires both memory and attention

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Orientation

Question 22

Persisting grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy

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Narcissistic

Question 23

• Speech with choice of words based on sound, rather than meaning, as in rhyming and punning.
• Ex: “Look at my eyes and nose, wise eyes and rosy nose. Two to one, the ayes have it!”
• Occurs in schizophrenia and manic episodes.

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Clanging

Question 24

Broca aphasia

Preserved comprehension and slow nonfluent speech

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Expressive Aphasia

Question 25

A fluctuating pattern of observable behaviors that expresses subjective feelings or emotions through tone of voice, facial expression, and demeanor.

Disturbed affect may be flat, blunted, labile, or inappropriate.

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Affect

Question 26

• Fabrication of facts or events in response to questions, to fill in the gaps from impaired memory
• Seen in Korsakoff syndrome from alcoholism.

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Confabulation

Question 27

Accelerated louder speech is seen in what mental health disorder?

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Mania

Question 28

Detachment from social relations with a restricted emotional range

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Schizoid

Question 29

Eccentricities in behavior and cognitive distortions; acute discomfort in close relationships

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Schizotypal

Question 30

Distrust and suspiciousness

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Paranoid

Question 31

The process of registering or recording information, tested by asking for immediate repetition of material, followed by storage or retention of information.

Recent or short-term covers minutes, hours, or days; remote or long-term refers to intervals of years.

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Memory

Question 32

Instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and affective regulation; impulsivity

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Borderline

Question 33

Slow speech is seen in what mental health disorder?

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Depression

Question 34

• An almost continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from one topic to the next.
• Changes are based on understandable associations, plays on words, or distracting stimuli, but ideas are not well connected.
• Most frequently noted in manic episodes.

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Flight of Ideas

Question 35

What the patient thinks about, including level of insight and judgment

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Thought content

Question 36

A complex symbolic system for expressing, receiving, and comprehending words; as with consciousness, attention, and memory, it is essential for assessing other mental functions

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Language

Question 37

Process of comparing and evaluating alternatives when deciding on a course of action; reflects values that may or may not be based on reality and social conventions or norms

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Judgement

Question 38

• “Tangential” speech with shifting topics that are loosely connected or unrelated.
• The patient is unaware of the lack of association.
• Seen in schizophrenia, manic episodes, and other psychotic disorders.

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Derailment (loosening of associations)

Question 39

Disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others

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Antisocial

Question 40

The ability to focus or concentrate over time on a particular stimulus or activity—an inattentive person is easily distractible and may have difficulty giving a history or responding to questions.

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Attention