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MSE Flashcards

1
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What is affect?

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Observable emotional expression; how the patient presents to others

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What are the two components of affect?

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Range and congruent vs incongruent

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How can you describe range of affect?

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Full/broad (typical)
Blunted/flat (atypical)

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What is a full affect?

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External emotional expression reflects internal emotional state

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What is a blunted/flat affect?

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Does not fully outwardly show their internal emotional state; hard to know what the person is feeling or experiencing

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What is congruent affect?

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Appropriate emotional expression to the content being discussed; authentic, genuine, integrated

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What is incongruent affect?

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Emotions being expressed are inconsistent with their internal emotional state; inauthentic, superficial

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What is mood?

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Subjective emotional state

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What are the components of mood?

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Range, lability

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How is the range of mood described?

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Dysphoric/depressed
Euthymic
Euphoric/elated

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What is a euthymic mood?

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Tranquil, happy

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What is labile mood?

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Unstable, quickly changing mood

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What is thought process?

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How a person makes sense of the world and how a person makes connection between content

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What are the components of thought process?

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Form of thought
Attention
Speed of thought

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How can form of thought be described?

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Logical
Circumstantial
Tangential
Loose associations
Flight of ideas

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What is logical form of thought?

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Clear, direct connections between content

17
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What is circumstantial thought process?

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Digressions to unnecessary details in thought and speech before communicating the central idea

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What is tangential thought process?

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Oblique, digressive, irrelevant speech; the central idea is not communicated

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What is loose association?

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Little or vague connection is made between concepts; continuous tangential links between ideas

20
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What is flight of ideas?

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Multiple thoughts and ideas are generated spontaneously without obvious connection

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