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Abnormal affect - Answer Changes in affect with schizophrenia, loss of prosody, and cognitive
disorder and catatonia
Abnormal attitude - Answer Suspicion is in paranoia, seductive and hysteria, apathetic in
conversion disorder, putting in frontal lobe syndromes
Abnormal concentration in calculation - Answer Medical cause versus anxiety, depression, pseudo
dementia
Abnormal fat content - Answer Grandiose delusions with mania, incongruent, delusions with
schizophrenia, illusions with delirium, thought insertion with schizophrenia
Abnormal general appearance - Answer Unkempt and disheveled and cognitive disorder, pinpoint
pupils in narcotic addiction, withdrawal, and stooped posture and depression
Abnormal information and intelligence - Answer Mental retardation, borderline intellectual
functioning
Abnormal insight - Answer Delirium, dementia, frontal, lobe syndrome, psychosis, borderline
intellectual functioning
Abnormal judgment - Answer Brain, disease, schizophrenia, borderline, intellectual functioning
disorder, intoxication
Abnormal moods - Answer Suicidal ideas in 25% of depressive, elation in mania, early morning,
awakening in depression, decreased need for sleep inn mania
Abnormal Motorik behavior - Answer Fixed posturing, odd behavior, and schizophrenia. Hyper
active with stimulant abuse and mania. Saga motor, retardation and depression, tremors with anxiety or
medication, side effect of lithium, minimal eye contact and schizophrenia, scanning of environment and
paranoid states.
Abnormal perceptual disorders - Answer Visual hallucinations in schizophrenia, tactile,
hallucinations in cocaine, delirium, tremens in alcohol, olfactory, hallucinations, and temporal lobe
epilepsy
Abnormal sensorium - Answer Clouded or wandering sensorium associated with delirium or
dementia
, Abnormal speech - Answer Pressured speech and manic patients, paucity of speech and
depression, uneven or slurred speech in cognitive disorders
Abnormal thought process - Answer Loose associations with schizophrenia, flight of ideas with
mania, inability to abstract with schizophrenia and brain damage
Acknowledgment of emotion intervention - Answer Verbal or nonverbal
Adolescent trauma - Answer Horse school performance is an indicator of emotional disorder,
schizophrenia begins in late adolescence
Adulthood trauma - Answer Manic patients go into debt where are promiscuous. Overvalued
religious ideas are associated with paranoid personality disorder.
Associations as intervention - Answer Using one symptom to talk about another issue
childhood trauma - Answer Separation anxiety and school phobia are associated with adult,
depression, and your recess associated with fire setting
clang associations - Answer Thoughts are associated by the sound of words, rather than by their
meaning, rhyming, or assonance
Depersonalization - Answer feelings of detachment from one's mental processes or body
derailment - Answer A breakdown in both the logical connection between ideas, and the overall
sense of goal directedNess
Derealization - Answer the sense that one's surroundings are unreal or detached
Education, intervention - Answer Interrupting the interview to educate on a topic
Encouragement, intervention - Answer Positive reinforcement about efforts with statement there
is more work to be done
Expanding interventions - Answer Redirecting to encourage the client to talk about other issues
Family psych history - Answer Genetic loading and anxiety, depression, schizophrenia
Humor intervention - Answer Can decrease tension and anxiety
illusion - Answer (n.) a false idea; something that one seems to see or to be aware that really
does not exist. Water in the desert, wind rustling is people talking
Impaired immediate memory - Answer Immediate memory impairment occurs with cognitive
dissociative or conversion disorder. PTSD or anxiety can impair, immediate retention and recent memory.
Enterra grade, memory, loss or amnesia occurs with benzodiazepines or GHB. Retrograde memory loss
occurs after head trauma.
impaired remote memory - Answer Gaps in memory filled in with confabulatory details in
dementia, patients, hypermnesia with paranoid personality