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NCM 117 Lecture (Prelims) > Mental Health Status: Assessment > Flashcards

Mental Health Status: Assessment Flashcards

1
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An emotional state of an individual

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Mood

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2
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The person’s capacity to vary the outward expression of mood

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Affect

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Different Types of Affect

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Inappropriate Affect
Flat Affect
Blunted Affect
Labile Affect
Exaggerated Affect

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Different Types of Affect

Disharmony between thought and emotional response

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Inappropriate Affect

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Different Types of Affect

No emotion attached to the content of speech

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Flat Affect

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3
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Different Types of Affect

Significantly reduced intensity of emotional expression

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Blunted Affect

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3
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Different Types of Affect

Change of emotion from happiness to tearfulness in very short span of time

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Labile Affect

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4
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Different Types of Affect

Overly dramatic expression of emotion

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Exaggerated Affect

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5
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False belief that others are against him or will harm him

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Persecutory Delusion (paranoid)

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5
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False belief that cannot be corrected by reasons

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Delusions

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6
Q

False belief that one denies
existence of self or part of self.

In extreme cases, the person
believes that he is already
DEAD.

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Nihilistic Delusions (Cotard’s Syndrome)

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7
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False belief that one thoughts
and actions are controlled by an
external force.

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Alien Control

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8
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False belief that one’s thought
can be read by others.

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Thought Broadcasting

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9
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False belief that one’s thought
is taken by others

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Thought Withdrawal

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10
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False belief that others inserted
thoughts or ideas into his mind.

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Thought Insertion

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11
Q

False belief that situations or
event in the environment are
directly projected into the
client.

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Ideas of Reference

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12
Q

False belief that one feels
unworthy, ugly, or sinful.

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Self-Depreciation

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13
Q

False belief that one is superior
and powerful.

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Grandiosity

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14
Q

False belief pertaining to body image or function

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Somatic Delusions

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15
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Flow of unconnected words that convey no meaning to the listener

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Word Salad

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16
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A persistent and irresistible thought that a person is driven to think again and again

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Obsession

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17
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A morbid belief that one is sick

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Hypochondria

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18
Q

Patient provide a lot of details
before finally answering the
question.

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Circumstantiality

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18
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A tendency to emit the same verbal or motor response again and again usually as a response to a stimulus

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Perseveration

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18
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Verbal production is not at all
related to the question

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Tangentiality

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19
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Creating new words that only the client understands

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Neologism

19
Q

Sudden stoppage of thought without apparent reason

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Thought Blocking

19
Q

Patient’s verbal production is impossible to follow due to lack of organization and lack of connection between ideas

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Loose Association

20
Q

Extreme form of loose association, wherein there is no two words that connect together to form and logical association

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Word Salad

21
Q

Patient speaks in rhymes

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Clang Association

22
Q

Over productivity of talk and
verbal jumping quickly from
one idea to another. Sometimes
ideas are superficially
associated.

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Flight of Ideas

23
Q

Patient has few ideas and focus
only on negative aspects.

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Poverty of Ideas

23
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False interpretation of the external stimulus

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Illusions

24
Q

A feeling of detachment from the environment and self

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Depersonalization

24
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False sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of an actual external stimuli and it may involve any of the 5 senses

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Hallucination

25
Q

A feeling of altered reality

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Derealization

26
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A motionless, apathetic state in which one is oblivious or does not react to external stimuli

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Catatonic Stupor

27
Q

Client assumes position and will not move when effort is made to change in position

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Rigidity

27
Q

Client is unresponsive to the surrounding but is conscious

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Stupor

28
Q

Client maintains his position which he has been originally placed

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Waxy Flexibility

29
Q

A state of constant purposeless agitation and excitation

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Catatonic Excitement

30
Q

Presence of motor restlessness and extreme over activity

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Hyperactivity

31
Q

Unpredictable and sudden outburst of activity

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Impulsiveness

32
Q

Unwanted urge to perform repetitive actions

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Compulsion

33
Q

Unconscious uncontrollable undirected activity

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Automatism

34
Q

Client imitates actions of others

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Echopraxia

35
Q

Client repeats words or statements of others

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Echolalia

36
Q

Unrelenting, rapid, often loud talking without pauses

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Pressured Speech

36
Q

Repetitive persistent motor activity or speech

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Stereotype

36
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Repetition of words or phrases may not have meaning to the listener

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Verbigeration

37
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Unconscious twitching or jerking of muscles usually above the shoulder which are involuntary

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Tics and Spasm

38
Q

Persistent motor behavior

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Mannerism

39
Q

Forgetting further events

Client finds it difficult to remember things that occurred BEFORE a traumatic event

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Retrograde Amnesia

39
Q

Complete absence of memory

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Amnesia

39
Q

Forgetting recent events

Client finds it difficult to remember things that occur AFTER a traumatic event

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Anterograde Amnesia (Goldfield’s Syndrome)

39
Q

Incomplete absence of memory

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Paraamnesia

40
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Fabricating storied to fill up lapses of memory caused by anterograde amnesia

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Confabulation

41
Q

Amnesia experienced by alcoholics about behavior during drinking hour

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Blackout

42
Q

Recollection of and belief in an event that did not actually occur

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False Memory

43
Q

Temporary inability to remember a name or proper noun

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Lethologica

44
Q

Familiarity of events that are unfamiliar “has seen”

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Dejavu

45
Q

Unfamiliarity of events that are
familiar “hasn’t seen”.

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Jamais Vu

46
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Familiarity of sounds that are unfamiliar “has heard”

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Deja Entendu

47
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Unfamiliarity of sounds that are familiar “hasn’t heard”

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Jamais Entendu

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