Mental Health Assessment List Quiz Abel

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hallucination

Back 1

the occurrence of a sight, sound, touch, smell or taste without any external stimulus to the sensory organs

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delusions

Back 2

fixed false beliefs that cannot be changed by logical reasoning

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loose associations

Back 3

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

Back 4

refers to thinking characterized by a focus on facts and details and inability to generalize or think abstractly

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tangential

Back 5

thoughts veer from main idea and never get back to it

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mood

Back 6

the subjective emotional/feeling state that the client describes

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word salad

Back 7

the use of words indiscriminately and haphazardly without logical structure or meaning

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affect

Back 8

the emotional expression of a person that others may observe

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insight

Back 9

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

Back 10

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 pt believes that news anchor person is reporting on them

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pressured

Back 11

refers to speech that is loud and emphatic, increased in amount, accelerated, and usually difficult or impossible to interrupt

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clanging

Back 12

refers to speech marked by words grouped by their sound or rhyme and not by their meaning

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circumstantial

Back 13

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

Back 14

unconsciously filing in memory gaps with imagined material

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ruminations

Back 15

recurring mood-congruent thoughts

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Reaction Formation

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Former smoker preaches about smoking's dangers

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Identification

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Hero worship basis

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Projection

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Woman who is angry with her boss says, "you hate me!"

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Displacement

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Woman who is angry with her husband, slams cupboard doors

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Denial

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Mother with a developmentally disabled child saves for his college fund

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Sublimation

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Only healthy defense mechanism

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Repression

Back 22

Young woman, abused as a child, has no memory of the abuse

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Compensation

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Unattractive woman states, "I'm not pretty, but I'm smart."

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Rationalization

Back 24

Student says she didn't pass the exam because the instructor asked unfair questions

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Introjection

Back 25

Widow experiences headaches after husband died of a cerebral hemorrhage

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Conversion

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Young man develops a paralyzed arm during a heated argument with his father

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Regression

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Andy, 4, wets the bed after the birth of a baby sister

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Undoing

Back 28

After arguing with wife, husband brings her flowers