Mood and Affect

Question 1

How is the term mood defined?

Answer 1

The way a person feels

Question 2

How is affect defined?

Answer 2

The observable response a person has to his or her own feelings

Question 3

What is flat affect?

Answer 3

No emotion.

Question 4

What is the mood spectrum?

Answer 4

It is a continuum of all possible mods that any person may experience.

Question 5

WWhat is mania?

Answer 5

Mental illness marked by periods of great excitement, euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.

Question 6

WHat is depression?

Answer 6

A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life

Question 7

What does regulation of mood involve?

Answer 7

Proper functioning and coordination of multiple brain structures and neurotransmitters

Question 8

What three hormones are affected when the activity gets disturbed in neurotransmitters of the brain?

Answer 8

• Dopamine
• Norepinephrine
• Serotonin

Question 9

What is dopamine?

Answer 9

• A neurotransmitter that helps control the brains reward and pleasure centers.
• Also helps regulate movement and emotional responses

Question 10

What lifespan considerations should be taken?

Answer 10

-emotional regulation normally evolves throughout lifespan

Question 11

What are some consequences of mood spectrum disorders?

Answer 11

• change in interpersonal relationships
• limited productivity
• reduced functional ability
• higher use and need for medical care
• increased potential for suicide

Question 12

Everyone has times of excitement and depression in their lives, when does it become a real issue?

Answer 12

When it lasts a long time.

Question 13

What are the risk factors of mood and affect disorders?

Answer 13

• being female
• 20s/early 30s, late 60s
• stress, early trauma, neglect, abuse, family history, comorbid medical and psychiatric disorders, personality disorders, substance dependence

Question 14

Wha types of health care settings might you discover mood and affect disorders?

Answer 14

ALL health care settings

Question 15

How may affective instability present?

Answer 15

As a combination of:

• Agitation
• sadness
• elation
• blunting (flat affect)

Question 16

How may speech sound during blunting?

Answer 16

Monotone, with responses being unusually brief

Question 17

Affect is the combined interaction of what?

Answer 17

Mood, energy, and cognition

Question 18

Nurses should know the common indicators of these key findings:

Answer 18

• Persistent mood disturbances
• functional impairment
• disturbed vegetative functioning

Question 19

Wha this included in a mental status assessment?

Answer 19

—general appearance

• motor activity
• mood
• affect
• speech and speech content
• alertness and orientation
• cognitive processes: perception, insight and memory

Question 20

What is the min-mental state exam?

Answer 20

30 point questionnaire given to measure cognitive impairment

Question 21

Are there any diagnostic tests for mood and affect disorders?

Answer 21

No.

Question 22

What is a good question to always ask?

Answer 22

Have you ever considered harming yourself?

Followed by do you have a plan.

Question 23

What is the primary prevention of mood and affect disorders?

Answer 23

Though to be a reduction of poverty, racism, violence, and stress (debatable if effective)

Question 24

What are secondary preventions of mood and affect disorders?

Answer 24

Early detention by screening

Question 25

Where are some examples of collaborative care for mood and affect disorders?

Answer 25

• motivational interviewing
• psychotherapy
• pharmacotherapy
• brain stimulation therapy
• management of emergent situations (suicide/violence to others

Question 26

Cognition and addiction affect a person’s mood and affect which in turn affects?

Answer 26

A patients functional ability.