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mental health

Mental status assessment

QuestionAnswer
Flight of ideas Continuos flow of speech in which the client jumps from one topic to another usually r/t over productivity.
Loose association Thoughts shift from one unrelated subject to another.
Circumstantiality Delay of reaching the point of communication d/t unrelated and tedious details.
Tangentiality Original point of communication is loss d/t unrelated & tedious details.
Neologism Made up words that have meaning only to the client, special meaning.
Concrete Thinking Literal interpretation of the environment. Inability to think abstractly or understand simple proverbs.
Clang Associations Speaking in puns or rhymes
Word Salad Using a mixture of words that have not meaning together; sounding incoherant.
Perseveration Persistently repeating the last word of a sentence spoken to the client.
Echolalia Persistently repeating what another person says
Mutism Inability or refusal to speak
Poverty of speech Lack or decrease in the amount of speech; sedation, meds, brain injury
Ability to concentrate and disturbance of attention Does the person hold attention to the topic at hand? Is the person easily distractible? Is there selective attention?
Delusions False believes; unrealistic ideas or beliefs
Grandoise An idea that he or she is all-powerful or of great importance.
Persecutory A belief that someone is out to get him or her in some way.
Reference Public events are directly related to him
Control or influences A belief that his or her behavior and thoughts are being controlled by external forces.
Somatic A belief that he or she has a dysfunctional body part.
Thought Broadcasting One's own unspoken thoughts can be heard by others.
Obsessions Recurrent thought; compulsion-recurrent action/ritual
Magical Thinking Believes thoughts/behavior have control over specific situations or ppl
Poverty of content Lack or decrease in content of thought
Illusions False perception of real external stimuli (see's something and thinks it's something else)
Hallucinations False perception not associated with real external stimuli. Person is experiencing unrealistic sensory perceptions.
Depersonalization False perception of the self. The feeling of one's own reality is lost (out of body experience)
Derealization False perception of the external world (environment)--does not feel real to them. "strange or unreal"
Ambivalence Coexistence of opposite emotions, making decisions MORE difficult.
Anergia A deficiency of energy.
Anhedonia Inability to experience or even imagine any pleasant emotion.
Autism Focusing inward on a fantasy world, while distorting or excluding the external enviroment.
Avolition Impairment in the ability to initiate goal-directed activity (may not be able to complete a task)
Negative symptoms Reflect a diminution or loss of normal function
Positive symptoms Reflect an access or distortion of normal functions.
Posturing Voluntary assumption of inappropriate or bizzare posture.
Waxy Flexibility Passively yielding all moveable parts of the body to any efforts made at placing them in certain position.
Axis I All mental illness disorders, exception personality disorders and mental retardation
Axis II Personality disorders and mental retardation
Axis III General medical conditions
Axis IV Psychosocial environmental problems present in the client's life at this time: Support systems/Occupation/Education/Economics/Legal issues/Housing/Access to health care/Social environment.
Axis V Global Assessment of Functioning
What does GAF stand for? Global Assessment of Functioning
Created by: llunazz
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