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What is mental status? |
A person’s emotional and cognitive function |
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A state of well being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with normal stresses of life, can work productively, and can make a contribution to the community |
Mental health |
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Mental disorders can be either |
Organic (caused by brain disease) or psychiatric |
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Consciousness gradually develops along with language so by _______ months the Child learns that he or she is separate from the objects in the environment |
18 to24 |
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Addition gradually increases throughout preschool so that by school age most children are able to |
Sit and concentrate on their work for a period of time |
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Around age 7 thinking becomes more logical and systematic and the child is able to |
Reason and understand |
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Ages ____able to consider a hypothetical situation |
12 to 15 |
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Age ____ experience illicit drug use, alcohol and cigarette dependence |
12 to 17 |
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What is the second leading cause of death? |
Suicide |
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Suicide is more common in |
Rural areas versus urban |
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Only how many percent of children receive mental health care |
15 to 25% |
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The aging adult, response time is |
Slower |
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In the aging adult, it takes the brain longer to |
Process information and react to it |
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In the aging adult, slow response time affects |
New learning |
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The aging adult, recent memory is |
Some what decreased |
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What kind of memory remains the same in the aging adult? |
Remote memory |
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Aging adult has decreased what |
Vision and hearing |
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What has aging adult experience |
Loss |
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What are the components of the mental status exam? |
Appearance Behavior Cognition Thought process ABCT |
ABCT |
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Keep in mind factors that might affect interpretations of a mental status exam |
No illness or health problems, medications, educational levels, response to personal history questions |
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Appearance |
Posture Body movements Dress Rooming Hygiene Pupils |
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Behavior |
level of consciousness Facial expressions Speech Mood and affect |
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Cognitive function |
Orientation Attention span Recent memory Remote memory New learning |
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New learning test |
For unrelated word test at five, 10, 30, and 60 minutes |
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Additional testing for persons with a Aphasia |
Word comprehension Reading Writing |
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Thought process and perceptions |
Thought processes Thought content Perceptions Screen for anxiety Screen for depression Screen for suicidal thoughts |
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How do you assess judgment? |
Note what a person says about job plans, social, or family and plans for the future Mini mental exam |
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Developmental competence |
Essentially you follow the same ABCT Guidelines as you do for adults, but have special considerations for milestones |
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Abnormalities arise when the |
Child does not reach milestones |
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What makes the most up of the mental status data? |
The parents health history, developmental history, and personal history |
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Denver II screening |
Designed to detect developmental delays and infants and preschoolers with four functions |
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What are the four functions in the Denver II Screening? |
Gross motor Language Fine motor adaptive The personal social skills |
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What does the Denver II do? |
Helps identify young children who may be slow and development in behavioral, Language, cognitive, and psychosocial areas |
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Adolescence follow the same ABCT Guidelines as adults. In the beginning ask what? |
Open ended questions |
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The aging adult, what should you assess before assessing any aspect of mental status? |
Check sensory status |
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When older people cannot hear your questions, what can they not do? |
They cannot accurately complete cognitive screening exams |
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What is used to measure consciousness in a hospital setting? |
Glasgow coma scale |
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What do you ask for cognitive function? |
Oriented to person place and time Time of year and month Location |
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And people of normal cognitive function, and age related change decline occurs in performance in the what? |
For unrelated word test |
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What’s the average for people in their 70s in the four unrelated word test? |
In their 70s average two words recalled in five minutes and typically do better at 10 and 30 minutes after being reminded of the words |
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People with blank do not improve |
People with Alzheimer’s scores do not improve |
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How long does the mini cog take to administer? |
3 to5 minutes |
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Mini cog test the persons what? |
Executive function, including the ability to plan, manage time, organize activities, and managing working memory |
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What is a mini cog test? |
Complete Ron close circle clock with all numbers present, we got all three words and draw the time requested |
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