Mental Health Disorders Flashcards
Psychosis Suicide?
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Schizophreniform?
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Postpartum Psychosis?
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Loosening of association?
Intact sentences but thoughts disjointed
Flight of ideas?
Jumping from one idea to another, thoughts are getting disjointed
Word salad?
Random words
Defense mechanisms?
Rationalization, Reaction action, denial
Signs and symptoms of depressant intoxication and withdrawal?
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What defense mechanism separates the emotion associated with a though so that the emotion is repressed?
Rationalization
What defense mechanism is used when a though, feeling or impulse is unacceptable to the conscious mind; therefore the person behaves in the exact opposite manner?
Reaction formation
What defense mechanism refers tot he refusal to acknowledge some painful aspect of the external reality or subjective experience that is apparent to others?
Denial
What defense mechanism occurs when feelings about a person or thing are shift to another, safer object?
Displacement
