Mental Health Assessment

Question 0

Movements are slow, speech is slow, thinking is slow, and slumped over in position

Answer 0

Psychomotor retardation

Question 1

Mimicking the actions of others

Answer 1

Echopraxia

Question 2

Overwhelming feeling of sadness or loss of interest

Answer 2

Depression

Question 3

Easily annoyed or provoked to anger

Answer 3

Irritable

Question 4

Feeling of apprehension

Answer 4

Anxious

Question 5

Feelings of joy and intense pleasure; intensely optimistic

Answer 5

Elated

Question 6

Heightened sense of elation; grandeur

Answer 6

Euphoric

Question 7

Feelings of apprehension with perceived or real danger

Answer 7

Fearful

Question 8

Feelings of discomfort associated with wrong doing, sadness, and despair

Answer 8

Guilty

Question 9

Abnormal sudden rapid shifts in affect

Answer 9

Labile

Question 10

Emotional expression is consistent with mood

Answer 10

Congruence with mood

Question 11

Minimal outward emotional expression is observed

Answer 11

Constricted or blunted

Question 12

A sense of outward emotional expression

Answer 12

Flat

Question 13

Expected emotional expression

Answer 13

Appropriate

Question 14

Incompatible emotional expression

Answer 14

Inappropriate

Question 15

One thing to the next

Answer 15

Flight of ideas

Question 16

Totally unrelated topic from a specific idea

Answer 16

Associative looseness

Question 17

Person gives minute details but they get to the point eventually

Answer 17

Circumstantiality

Question 18

Never get to the point

Answer 18

Tangentiality

Question 19

Person who makes up words

Answer 19

Neologisms

Question 20

Literal; cannot think abstractly

Answer 20

Concrete thinking

Question 21

Using words that sound alike

Answer 21

Clang associations

Question 22

Mixture of words

Answer 22

Word salad

Question 23

Same response repeatedly

Answer 23

Perseveration

Question 24

Parrot talk

Answer 24

Echolalia

Question 25

Does not speak

Answer 25

Mutism

Question 26

Minimal speech

Answer 26

Poverty of speech

Question 27

Easily distracted

Answer 27

Disturbance of attention

Question 28

Someone is out to get them

Answer 28

Delusion: persecutory

Question 29

Thinks he or she is all powerful and of great importance

Answer 29

Delusion: grandiose

Question 30

Anything happening in the environment is about him or her

Answer 30

Reference

Question 31

Thoughts that their behavior is being controlled by external forces

Answer 31

Delusion: control or influence

Question 32

Belief of a dysfunctional body part

Answer 32

Somatic

Question 33

Belief that a part of the body, world, or themselves do not exist anymore

Answer 33

Nihilistic

Question 34

Talking about hurting self of someone else

Answer 34

Suicidial/homicidal idealation

Question 35

Persistent thoughts that cannot be eliminated

Answer 35

Obsessions

Question 36

Irrational fear

Answer 36

Phobias

Question 37

Scanning the environment and questioning others

Answer 37

Paranoid

Question 38

His or her words have powers

Answer 38

Magical thinking

Question 39

Relating everything to religion

Answer 39

Religiosity

Question 40

Nothing and/or vague statements

Answer 40

Poverty or content

Question 41

Not real sensory perceptions

Answer 41

Hallucinations

Question 42

The two main hallucinations

Answer 42

Auditory and visual

Question 43

Mirage that they see something and thinks it’s something else

Answer 43

Illusions

Question 44

Altered sense of self; outside the body

Answer 44

Depersonalizations

Question 45

Altered perception of the environment and feels surroundings have changed

Answer 45

Derealization

Question 46

Alzheimer’s patients; fill in memory gaps with imagery

Answer 46

Confabulation