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psych final 2
mental status exam pg 142
Question | Answer |
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Personal info | age,sex,marital status, religion, race, ethnicity, employment, living arrangements |
Appearance: | grooming and dress,level of hygiene,pupil dilation/constriction, facial expression, height,weight, nutritional status, body piercings,scars, tattoos, relationship between age and appearance |
Behavior | excessive/reduced/peculiar body movements (scanning of environment,odd or repetitive gestures,LOC,balance/gait) abnormal movmnts (tardive,tremors etc, level of eye contact |
speech | rate, volume, disturbances (articulation problems, slurring, stuttering, mumbling), cluttering (rapid, disorganized, tongue-tied speech) |
Affect and mood | affect (flat, bland, animated, angry, withdrawn, appropriate to context) mood (sad, labile, euphoric) |
Thought | Thought process (disorganized, coherent, flight of ideas, neologisms, thought blocking, circumstantiality) Thought content (delusions, obsessions, suicidal thought |
perceptual disturbances | hallucinations (auditory, visual, tactile). Illusions |
cognition | Orientation X3, LOC (alert, confused, clouded, stuporous, unconscious, comatose). Memory(remote, recent,immed) fund of knowledge, attention (performance on serial sevens, digit span test) |
cognition continued | Abstraction (performance on test involving similarities/proverbs), insight, judgment |