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46 Cards in this Set
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Hallucination
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The occurrence of a sight, sound, touch, or taste without any external stimulus to the sensory organs.
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Delusions
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Fixed false beliefs that cannot be changed by logical reasoning.
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Loose associations
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Disconnected thoughts, verbal ideas shift from one topic to another, there is no apparent relationship between thoughts and the person is unaware that topics are unconnected.
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Concrete
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Refers to thinking characterized by a focus on facts and details and inability to generalize or think abstractly.
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Tangential
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Thoughts veer from main idea and never get back to it.
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Mood
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The subjective emotional/feeling state that the client describes.
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Word salad
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The use of words indiscriminately and haphazardly without logical structure or meaning.
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Affect
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The emotional expression of a person that others may observe.
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Insight
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In the mental health status assessment refers to the degree of awareness that one has about their own mental illness.
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Ideas of reference
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Remarks or actions by someone else that in no way refer to the person but that are interpreted as related to her or him IE patient believes that news anchor person is reporting on them.
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Pressured
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Refers to speech that is loud and emphatic, increased in amount, accelerated, and usually difficult or impossible to interrupt.
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Clanging
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Refers to speech marked by words grouped by their sound or rhyme and not by their meaning.
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Circumstantial
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A disturbance of associative thought and speech processes in which a person digresses into unnecessary, tedious details before communicating the central idea.
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Confabulation
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Unconsciously filling in memory gaps with imagined material.
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Ruminations
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Recurring mood-congruent thoughts.
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Flight of ideas
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Rapid, fragmented thoughts manifested in pressured speech.
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Disheveled
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Being in loose disarray; unkempt, as hair or clothing.
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Malodorous
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Having a foul odor.
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Eccentric
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A person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behavior.
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Mannerisms
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A distinctive behavioral trait; exaggerated or affected style or habit, as in dress or speech.
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Compulsions
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An irresistible persistent impulse to perform an act.
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Internal preoccupation
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Often indicative of hallucinations. Focused on and engrossed in something internal.
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Guarded
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Cautious and having possible reservations.
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Ingratiating
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Giving excessive compliments.
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Indifferent
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Having no particular interest or sympathy; unconcerned.
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Hostile
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Unfriendly; antagonistic.
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Combative
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Ready or eager to fight; pugnacious.
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Hypervigilant
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Paranoid.
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Psychomotor retardiation
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Slowing down of thought and a reduction of physical movements in an individual. May cause a visible slowing of physical and emotional reactions, including speech and affect.
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Pill rolling
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A circular movement or tremor of the tips of the thumb and the index finger when brought together, often times seen in Parkinson's disease.
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Dystonia
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A neurological movement disorder, in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
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Akathisia
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A feeling of inner restlessness, a constant urge to move.
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Neologism
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The invention of new words.
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Perseverating
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Repetitive word, phrase, or gesture usage.
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Euphoric
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Extremely happy.
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Euthymic
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Pertaining to a normal mood in which the range of emotions is neither depressed nor highly elevated.
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Blunted
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Failure to express feelings either verbally or non-verbally, especially when talking about issues that would normally be expected to engage the emotions.
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Flat
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The absence or near absence of emotional response to a situation that normally elicits emotion.
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Apathetic/Ambivalent
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Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
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Labile
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Unstable, rapidly changing emotions.
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Thought blocking
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A sudden inability to finish a though, or to recall what the thought was.
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Circumstantial speech
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Communication disorder in which the focus of a conversation drifts, but often comes back to the point.
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Poverty of thought
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A person wants to talk in social environment but does not know what to say.
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Somatic
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Pertaining to delusions or hallucinations whose main content pertains to the appearance or function of one's body.
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Thought broadcasting
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A delusional belief that others can hear or are aware of an individual's thoughts.
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Thought withdrawal delusion
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A delusion typical of schizophrenia, in which the patient believes that his thoughts have removed by a hallucinated external force.
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