Q1 Mental Status Examination Flashcards
purpose of DSM V
- communication
- research
- payment
difference between psychiatric vs medical interview
- fact and feeling based exam
- interview is exam
- attention to doctor-patient interaction
what is abnormality of movement and behavior arising from a disturbed mental state
- catatonia
what is the term for what we observe on someone’s face
- affect
what is the patient’s description of subjective feeling
- mood
what term would describe a very down, low affect
- dysphoric
what term would describe a normal level of affect
- euthymic
what term would describe an elevated or high affect
- euphoric
what term would describe a change in emotions throughout interactions
- labile
what is the terminology that describes long-winded answer but eventually returns to answer the original question
- circumstantial
what is the terminology that describes when a person responds to question in loosely related way but never fully answers the original question
- tangential
what is the terminology that describes the rapid and continuous shifting from one idea to another
- flight of ideas
what is the terminology that describes the person responding to rhyming sounds rather than meaning of words
- echolalia
what is the terminology that describes the association of ideas and thought patterns that becomes so vague, fragmented, diffuse, and unfocused as to lack any logical sequences or relationship
- looseness of association
what is the terminology that describes delusions where the person thinks that things brought up deal with them personally
- idea of reference
