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Psych Assessment Flashcards

1
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You are the captain of your own ship

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Self efficacy

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You are able to resist becoming I’ll in hard times

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Hardiness

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You bounce back quickly after a set back

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Resilience

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Including a lot of extra details that are not important when answering a question

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Circumstantial

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Can not comprehend they have an illness ( not the same as denial)

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Anosognosia

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Including a lot of extra details in answering a question - going on a tangent

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Tangential

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I am going to grumbulTe a conforum
Example of what altered speech pattern

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Neologism

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Altered perception and experience something that is not present

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Hallucinations

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Alexithymia

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Difficulty expressing and identifying feelings

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When you ask a client who has delirium a question their response will be

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They will not understand the question

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Asking a person with dementia a question , their response will look like

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Answer , may sound reasonable to start but then start to wonder
- get different answer each time

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Asking a depressed person a question their answer will look like

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Short and may not be interested in convo

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13
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How is immediate / recall memory tested

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3 objects recalled after several minutes

Red apple queen

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14
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How is recent memory tested?

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Ask about memory - yesterday
Ex) how did you get to the hospital

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15
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How is remote/long term memory tested?

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Ask about past memories

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16
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Akathisia

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Motor restlessness

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17
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Isolative

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Physically remove self from situations
- stays in bedroom

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18
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Withdrawn

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Around others but does not engage
- not participating in group

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19
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Mood

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Client states how they feel

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Affect

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How the patient appears to be feeling
- how nurse interprets

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21
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Labeled mood or affect

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Swings or abrupt changes

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22
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Judgement

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Can they act reasonably in urgent situations

  • someone yells fire in a movie theater, what do you do?
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23
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Hypnagogic hallucinations

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Happens when you are just about to fall asleep

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24
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Hypnopompic hallucinations

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Happens when waking up

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25
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Delusion

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Believing something that is not real

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26
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Impaired insight

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Diminished ability to understand the objective reality of a situation

  • do you think you do you think you need to be in hospital?
    I do not need to be here! I am not suicidal!
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27
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Impaired judgement

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Diminished ability to understand a situation correctly and act appropriately

  • I can look after myself, I do not need money , I can live off the land ( has no home or resources)
28
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Immediate recall loss

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Patient cannot remember three things they were asked to remember 10 min ago

29
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Suicidal ideation

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Patient thinking about suicide most of time

30
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Flat affect

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No emotional expression

31
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Blunted affect

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Showing bits of emotion

32
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Restricted affect

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Showing one type of emotion

33
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Labile affect

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Going from one emotion expression to another, quickly and sometimes not matching the appropriateness of sitting

34
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Somatic signs and symptoms

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Observing facial grimacing and lip movements

35
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Word salad

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Incoherent mixture of words/ phrases

36
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Thought blocking

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Client starts answer then suddenly stops talking

37
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Loose associations

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Client makes a statement, expands on one word in the next while going in a different direction

38
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Anti cholinergic toxicity

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Increased hr , not able to void, no paristalsis , hot/ dry

39
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Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)

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Temp over 103, diaphoresis and rigid muscles

40
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Physiological needs

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Breathing food , water, sex, homeostasis, excretion

41
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Safety needs

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Security of body, employment, resources, family health

42
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Love and belonging

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Friends, family, sexual intensity

43
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Self actualization needs

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Morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts

44
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Stage 1 : infancy - trust vs mistrust

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Others will be reliable

45
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Stage 2 : early childhood- autonomy vs shame and doubt

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I can do things myself

46
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Stage 3: preschool- initiative vs guilt

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I can do things and I am a good person

47
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Stage 4: school age - industry vs inferior

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I am good at what I do

48
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Stage 5: adolescence- identify vs confusion

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A am a unique person, I belong

49
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Stage six : early adult : intimacy vs isolation

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I can be loved and love

50
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Stage 7: middle age - generativity vs stagnation

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I can contribute to the well being of others/ community, I have a purpose

51
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Mini mental status exam (mmsu)

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Considered psychiatric equivalent to physical exam
- count backward from 100 by 7s
Spell world backwards
Recall 3 words
Follow instructions for closing eyes / copy a drawing

52
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Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA)

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More sensitive toon to assess orientation & memory
- connect dots in sequence 1-a 2-b..
Recall 5 words
Name animals

53
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MSe or moca score for a Dementia patient

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Be high - goes up with progression of illness

54
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MSe - appearance

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Appreciate/ well kept vs bizarre

Self care
Clothing , last shower?
Oral hygiene

55
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MSE: level of consciousness

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Alert and oriented vs not

Comatose, lethargic, delirious

56
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MSe: orientation & memory

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Oriented or disoriented, memory intact vs not

Time, date, place, self, situation
Immediate recall
Recent memory
Remote/ long term memory

57
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MSe: perception and thought content

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Reality based vs altered

  • delusions, hallucinations, responding t internal stimuli
58
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MSe: speech and thought process

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Linear vs not liner

Organized / disorganized
Circumstantial, tangential, loose associations, flight of ideas, word salad….

59
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Psychosis

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Spit from reality
- common in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar 1/2 , dementia, intoxication

60
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Goals : day, stay, away

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Goal for the day
Goal for hospital stay
Goal for discharge

61
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Risk for violence to self or others
- 5 things to look out for

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Ideation
Behavior
Palms
Intent
Psychosis

62
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Strong predictors for suicide

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Pervasive hopelessness
High intent
Recent attempts

63
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Strong predictors for aggressive behavior

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Current/ past violent behavior directed to hcp
Low frustration tolerance

64
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Abnormal involuntary movement scale

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Assessment tool for epse side effects of tar dive dyskinesia related to antipsychotic meds
- not reversible

65
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Aims test for tar dive dyskinesia

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Ask client to concentrate on movements such as finger tapping while observing other body parts for “activated movements”

66
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Dto

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Danger to others

67
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Dts

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Danger to self

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