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Which disturbances in Thought Process & Content is being described?
Client gives out EXCESSIVE UNNECESSARY DETAILS, but eventually GETS TO THE POINT.
Circumstantial Thinking
Rationale:
- Beating around the bush, patumpik-tumpik, marami munang sinasabi. But will ARRIVE WITH AN ANSWER.
What disturbance in thought process and content is displayed by the client here:
Nurse: “How have you been sleeping lately?”
Client: “Oh, I go to bed, so I can get plenty of rest. I like to listen to music or read books before bed. Right now I am reading a good mystery. Maybe I will write a mystery someday. But is it isn’t helping reading, reading I mean. I have been getting only 2 or 3 hours of sleep at night.”
Circumstantial Thinking
Which disturbances in Thought Process & Content is being described?
A client gives out EXCESSIVE UNNECESSARY DETAILS, and NEVER GETS TO THE POINT.
Tangential Thinking
Rationale:
- Beating around the bush, patumpik-tumpik, marami munang sinasabi. But will NOT ARRIVE with an answer.
What disturbance in thought process and content is displayed by the client here:
Nurse: “How have you been A client sleeping lately?”
Client: “Oh, I go to bed, so I can get plenty of rest. I like to listen to music or read books before bed. Right now I am reading a good mystery. Maybe I will
write a mystery someday. But sometimes I also like drama or non-fiction.”
Tangential Thinking
Which disturbances in Thought Process & Content is being described?
It is a combination of jumbled WORDS that are disconnected or incoherent and make no sense to the
listener.
Word Salad
Rationale:
- A mixture of unrelated WORDS.
What disturbance in thought process and content is displayed by the client here:
Patient: “Corn, potatoes, jump up, play games, grass, cupboard.”
Word Salad
Which disturbances in Thought Process & Content is being described?
Stereotyped repetition of words or phase
that may or not have meaning to the
listener.
Verbigeration
What disturbance in thought process and content is displayed by the client here:
Patient: “I want to go home, go home, go home.”
Verbigeration
Rationale:
- May kausap man o wala, isa lang ang sinasabi
- Patient: “I want to go home, go home, go home.”
Nurse: “Kumain ka na?”
Patient: “I want to go home, go home, go home.”
- Tumitigil din sila pero pag kinausap mo ulit, yun parin sinasabi nila .
Which disturbances in Thought Process & Content is being described?
Persistent adherence to a single idea or
topic and verbal repetition of a sentence,
phrase, or word, even when another
person attempts to change the topic.
Perseveration
What disturbance in thought process and content is displayed by the client here:
Nurse: “How have you been sleeping lately?”
Client: “I think people have been following me.”
Nurse: ‘Where do you live?”
Client: “At my place people have been following
Nurse: ‘What do you like to do in your free time?”
Client: “Nothing because people are following me.”
Perseveration
Which disturbances in Thought Process & Content is being described?
Client’s imitation or repetition of what
the nurse says.
Echolalia
What disturbance in thought process and content is displayed by the client here:
Nurse: Can you tell me how you’re feeling?
Client: Can you tell me how you’re feeling?
Echolalia
Rationale:
- Parrot-like imitation of words
- Nakakapikon kausap
Which disturbances in Thought Process & Content is being described?
Excessive amount and rate of speech
composed of FRAGMENTED or UNRELATED
IDEAS.
Flight of Ideas
What disturbance in thought process and content is displayed by the client here:
‘The sun is shining. Where is my sun? I love Lucy. Let us play ball.”
Flight of Ideas
Which disturbances in Thought Process & Content is being described?
Disorganized thinking that jumps from
one idea to another with little or no
evident relation between the thoughts
Looseness of Association
What disturbance in thought process and content is displayed by the client here:
Nurse: “Do you have enough money to buy that candy bar?”
Client: “I have a real yen for chocolate. The Japanese have all the yen and have taken all of our money and mark edit. You know, you have to be careful
of the Marxists because they are friends with the Swiss and they have all the cheese and all the watches and that means they have taken all the time. The worst thing about Swiss cheese is all the holes. People have to be careful about falling into holes.”
Looseness of Association
Which disturbances in Thought Process & Content is being described?
FALSE BELIEF which is inconsistent with
one’s knowledge and culture
Delusion
What disturbance in thought process and content is displayed by the client here:
The client may claim to be engaged to a famous movie star or related to some public figure such as claiming to be the daughter of the President of the
Philippines.
Delusion
Which disturbances in perception is being described?
False sensory perceptions, or
perceptual experiences that do not really
exist.
Hallucination
What disturbance in perception is displayed by the client here:
The client may claim to be speaking with an imaginary person commanding him to do something bad to another person.
Hallucination
Which disturbances in Thought Process & Content is being described?
Words invented by the client
Neologisms
What disturbance in thought process and content is displayed by the client here:
“I’m afraid of grittiz. If there are any grittiz here, I will have to leave. Are you a grittiz?”
Neologisms
What disturbance in communication is displayed by the client here:
Client does not talk.
Mutism
What disturbance in communication is displayed by the client here:
Client always says, “No.”
Negativism
