Psychiatry Overview Flashcards
How many adults suffer a diagnosable psychiatric disorder in a given year?
1 in 4
How many of those with a mental disorder meet the criteria for a
SECOND disorder?
Nearly half
State which disorders fall in what category in the The 5 Axis
Axis I - Major mental disorders
Axis II - Mental retardation, Learning disorders, Intellectual disorders, Personality disorders
Axis III - Physical health problems
Axis IV - Stressors that are not a disorder (psychosocial): Unemployment, environment
Axis V - GAF 🡪 global assess of functioning, Score of how functioning you are now (<40: most people in the hospital)
Fixed, bizarre, unrealistic beliefs not subject to rational argument and not accounted for by accepted cultural or religious beliefs
Delusions
A disorder of thinking in which associations of ideas become so shortened, fragmented, and disturbed as to lack logical relationship
Loosening of Associations
Mental condition in which one tends to digress from the topic under discussion, especially by word association
Tangentiality
Perceived loss of boundaries between self and the environment
Loss of ego boundaries
General mistrust or suspicion
Beliefs are plausible but false
Elaborate delusional systems
Paranoid
A global reduction in the quantity of thought and thought preservation where a person keeps returning to the same limited set of ideas
Poverty of Thought
When a person’s speech is suddenly interrupted by silences that may last a few seconds to a minute (or even longer)
Thought blocking
A general lack of additional, unprompted content seen in normal speech
Poverty of speech
An obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases
Verbigeration
Unwillingness or refusal to speak
Mutism
Making up words
Neologisms
A mode of speech characterized by association of words based upon sound rather than concepts
Clang associations
