Psych

Question 1

What is the thought process that occurs when a patient uses a roundabout way to connect his thoughts to the original topic?

Answer 1

Circumstantial

Question 2

What is the thought process that occurs when a patient’s thoughts have very little association between them?

Answer 2

Tangential

Question 3

What is when a patient loses the ability to have a normal thought process?

Answer 3

Looseness of association

Question 4

What is the thought process that occurs when a patient is distracted by his environment and leaps from one thought to another unrelated thought?

Answer 4

Flight of ideas

Question 5

Verbal and written orders for restrain and seclusion are limited to the following?

Answer 5

4 hrs for patients ages 18 and older
2 hrs for children and youth ages 9 to 17
1 hr for childeren age 9 or younger