Psychiatric Diagnoses

Question 0

What is defined as a clinically significant behavior or psychological pattern that occurs in an individual associated with either distress (painful symptoms) or impairment in functioning (disability)?

Answer 0

Psychiatric (mental) disorder?

Question 1

What is defined as loss of touch with reality as represented by delusions and/or hallucinations?

Answer 1

Psychosis

Question 2

What is defined as a misperception of actual stimuli?

Answer 2

Illusion

Question 3

What is defined as presence of a perception in the absence of stimuli? (Auditory, visual, olfactory, somatic or tactile)

Answer 3

Hallucinations

Question 4

What is defined as a stable and prolonged state of mind or emotion?

Answer 4

Mood

Question 5

What is defined as observable emotional expression of state?

Answer 5

Affect

Question 6

What is defined as a fixed false belief (culturally inappropriate) weather: paranoid, grandiose, hyper-religous, erotomanic, somatic, of reference, of control, thought broadcasting/insertion/deletion, bizarre or non-bizarre, mood congruent or incongruent?

Answer 6

Delusion

Question 7

What is defined as intrusive thought, image, or urge that is repetitive, unwanted and in a moment of quiet reflection seen as ego dystonic (uncomfortable against self)?

Answer 7

Obsession

Question 8

What is defined as behavior aimed at reducing obsession or anxiety in general, may be mental activity?

Answer 8

Compulsion

Question 9

What is defined as behavior aimed at self harm such as cutting, pinching, burning, scratching, often aimed at reducing anxiety or attempting to feel?

Answer 9

Self Injurious Behavior

Question 10

What is defined as behavior aimed at terminating ones life?

Answer 10

Suicidality

Question 11

What are the 8 categories of a mental status exam?

Answer 11

Appearance/attitude, activity (motor), speech, mood/affect, thought process/thought content, perceptions, cognition, insight/judgement