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Mental Health Terminology Flashcards

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What is “circumstantiality”?

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Pattern of speech which is indirect, and delayed in reaching its goal idea. Speaker is long-winded and brings many tedious, but related, details before getting to the point.

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What is a ‘compulsion’?

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Pathological need to act on an impulse, that, if restricted, produces anxiety.

Repetitive behaviour in response to an obsession.

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What is ‘agnosia’?

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an inability to recognise and interpret the significance of sensory impressions

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What is ‘akathisia’?

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Subjective feeling of muscular tension secondary to antipsychotic or other medication, which can cause restlessness, pacing, repeated sitting and standing.

Can be mistaken for psychotic agitiation.

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What is ‘alexithymia’?

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Inability or difficulty in describing or being aware of one’s emotions or moods.

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What is ‘anosognosia’?

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An inability to recognise illness as occurring to oneself.

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What is ‘apraxia’?

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Inability ti carry out specific tasks.

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What is ‘autotopagnosia’?

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inability to recognise a body part as one’s own.

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What is ‘blocking’?

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abrupt interruption in train of thinking before a thought or idea is finished, after brief pause, person indicates no recall of what was being said or was going to be said.

Also known as ‘thought deprivation’

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What are ‘positive symptoms’?

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symptoms that people don’t normally get but are present in a mental disorder e.g. hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behaviour

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What are ‘negative symptoms’?

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symptoms that are normally present but in a mental disorder thay are not present or are diminished e.g. apathy, anhedonia, deficits in attention control.

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What is a ‘Capgras delusion’?

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A delusion in which person believes that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor/exact double, despite recognition of familiarity in appearance and behaviour.

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What is a ‘Fregoli delusion’?

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a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise

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What is another 2 terms for ‘non-fluent aphasia’?

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Expressive aphasia or Broca’s aphasia

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What are another 2 two terms for ‘fluent aphasia’?

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Receptive aphasia, Wernicke’s aphasia

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What is ‘echolalia’?

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when a patient repeats what someone has said

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What is ‘echopraxia’?

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When a patient imitates movements.

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What is ‘catalepsy’?

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muscular rigidity, with no response to examiner

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what is a ‘delusion’?

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a fixed false belief baed on incorrect inference about external reality, not keeping with background

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What are the features of catatonia?

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  • involuntary grasp
  • opposition
  • waxy flexibility
  • negativism
  • posturing
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What is tardive dyskinesia?

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early symptom in the mouth is a ‘rabbity’ twitching, which beomes a whole body twitch

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What is ‘perseveration’?

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nonvolitional repetition of words/motor activity

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What is an ‘illusion’?

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a distorted/exaggerated/misinterpretation of physical stimuli

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What are the features of a psychotic episode?

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  • distorted sense of reality
  • distinct change in thought process and personality
  • one or more of:
  1. hallucinations
  2. delusions
  3. communication difficulties e.g. word salad
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What are the features of a manic episode?

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elevated, expansive, notably irritable mood, with difficulty functioning, 3 or more of:

“DIGFAST”

  • D - distractabiity, easy frustration
  • I - irresponsibility and erratic uninhibited behaviour
  • G - Grandiosity
  • F - Flight of ideas
  • A - activity increased with weight loss and increased libido
  • S - sleep decreased
  • T - talkativeness
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Define the Multiaxial Assessment in mental health?

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Axis I: clinical disorder

Axis II: Personality Disorders

Axis III: general medical conditions

Axis IV: psychosocial and environmental factors

Axis V: gloal assessment of function

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What are “ideas/delusions of reference”?

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belief that irrelevant, unrelated phenomena in the world relate directly to them or have special personal significance

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What is astereoagnosia?

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an inability to recognise obejcts by touch

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what is blocking?

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abrupt interruption in train of thinking before a thought or idea is finished, after brief apuse, person indicates no recall of what ws being said or was going to be said.

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What is catatonia?

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motor anomalies in non-organic disorders

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What is catatonic posturing?

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voluntary assumption of an inappropriate or bizzarre posture, nerally maintained for a long period of time

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what is catatonic rigidity?

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voluntary assumption of a rigid posture, held against all efforts to be moved

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What is catatonic stupor?

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markedly slowed motor activvity, often to a point of immobility and seemingly unaware of surroundings

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What is waxy flexibility?

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the person can be moulded into a position that is ten maintaine, when the examiner moves the persons limb, the limb feels as if it were made of wax

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what is deja entendu?

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illusion of auditory recognition

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what is deja pense?

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illusion of a new thought is recognisedas a thought previosuly felt or expressed

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What is negativism?

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a motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved or to all instructions

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what is a nominal aphasia?

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difficulty in finding correct name for an object

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what is perseveration?

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persisting response to a prior stimulus after a new stimulus bas been presented, often associated with organic mental disease

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what is trichotillomania?

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a compulsion to pull out one’s hair

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what is word salad?

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an incoherent mixture of words and phrases

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What is transference?

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how the patient feels about the doctor

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What is countertransference?

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how the doctor feels about the patient

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