Mental Health Status: Assessment

Question 1

An emotional state of an individual

Answer 1

Mood

Question 2

The person’s capacity to vary the outward expression of mood

Answer 2

Affect

Question 2

Different Types of Affect

Answer 2

Inappropriate Affect
Flat Affect
Blunted Affect
Labile Affect
Exaggerated Affect

Question 2

Different Types of Affect

Disharmony between thought and emotional response

Answer 2

Inappropriate Affect

Question 3

Different Types of Affect

No emotion attached to the content of speech

Answer 3

Flat Affect

Question 3

Different Types of Affect

Significantly reduced intensity of emotional expression

Answer 3

Blunted Affect

Question 3

Different Types of Affect

Change of emotion from happiness to tearfulness in very short span of time

Answer 3

Labile Affect

Question 4

Different Types of Affect

Overly dramatic expression of emotion

Answer 4

Exaggerated Affect

Question 5

False belief that others are against him or will harm him

Answer 5

Persecutory Delusion (paranoid)

Question 5

False belief that cannot be corrected by reasons

Answer 5

Delusions

Question 6

False belief that one denies
existence of self or part of self.

In extreme cases, the person
believes that he is already
DEAD.

Answer 6

Nihilistic Delusions (Cotard’s Syndrome)

Question 7

False belief that one thoughts
and actions are controlled by an
external force.

Answer 7

Alien Control

Question 8

False belief that one’s thought
can be read by others.

Answer 8

Thought Broadcasting

Question 9

False belief that one’s thought
is taken by others

Answer 9

Thought Withdrawal

Question 10

False belief that others inserted
thoughts or ideas into his mind.

Answer 10

Thought Insertion

Question 11

False belief that situations or
event in the environment are
directly projected into the
client.

Answer 11

Ideas of Reference

Question 12

False belief that one feels
unworthy, ugly, or sinful.

Answer 12

Self-Depreciation

Question 13

False belief that one is superior
and powerful.

Answer 13

Grandiosity

Question 14

False belief pertaining to body image or function

Answer 14

Somatic Delusions

Question 15

Flow of unconnected words that convey no meaning to the listener

Answer 15

Word Salad

Question 16

A persistent and irresistible thought that a person is driven to think again and again

Answer 16

Obsession

Question 17

A morbid belief that one is sick

Answer 17

Hypochondria

Question 18

Patient provide a lot of details
before finally answering the
question.

Answer 18

Circumstantiality

Question 18

A tendency to emit the same verbal or motor response again and again usually as a response to a stimulus

Answer 18

Perseveration

Question 18

Verbal production is not at all related to the question

Answer 18

Tangentiality

Question 19

Creating new words that only the client understands

Answer 19

Neologism

Question 19

Sudden stoppage of thought without apparent reason

Answer 19

Thought Blocking

Question 19

Patient's verbal production is impossible to follow due to lack of organization and lack of connection between ideas

Answer 19

Loose Association

Question 20

Extreme form of loose association, wherein there is no two words that connect together to form and logical association

Answer 20

Word Salad

Question 21

Patient speaks in rhymes

Answer 21

Clang Association

Question 22

Over productivity of talk and verbal jumping quickly from one idea to another. Sometimes ideas are superficially associated.

Answer 22

Flight of Ideas

Question 23

Patient has few ideas and focus only on negative aspects.

Answer 23

Poverty of Ideas

Question 23

False interpretation of the external stimulus

Answer 23

Illusions

Question 24

A feeling of detachment from the environment and self

Answer 24

Depersonalization

Question 24

False sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of an actual external stimuli and it may involve any of the 5 senses

Answer 24

Hallucination

Question 25

A feeling of altered reality

Answer 25

Derealization

Question 26

A motionless, apathetic state in which one is oblivious or does not react to external stimuli

Answer 26

Catatonic Stupor

Question 27

Client assumes position and will not move when effort is made to change in position

Answer 27

Rigidity

Question 27

Client is unresponsive to the surrounding but is conscious

Answer 27

Stupor

Question 28

Client maintains his position which he has been originally placed

Answer 28

Waxy Flexibility

Question 29

A state of constant purposeless agitation and excitation

Answer 29

Catatonic Excitement

Question 30

Presence of motor restlessness and extreme over activity

Answer 30

Hyperactivity

Question 31

Unpredictable and sudden outburst of activity

Answer 31

Impulsiveness

Question 32

Unwanted urge to perform repetitive actions

Answer 32

Compulsion

Question 33

Unconscious uncontrollable undirected activity

Answer 33

Automatism

Question 34

Client imitates actions of others

Answer 34

Echopraxia

Question 35

Client repeats words or statements of others

Answer 35

Echolalia

Question 36

Unrelenting, rapid, often loud talking without pauses

Answer 36

Pressured Speech

Question 36

Repetitive persistent motor activity or speech

Answer 36

Stereotype

Question 36

Repetition of words or phrases may not have meaning to the listener

Answer 36

Verbigeration

Question 37

Unconscious twitching or jerking of muscles usually above the shoulder which are involuntary

Answer 37

Tics and Spasm

Question 38

Persistent motor behavior

Answer 38

Mannerism

Question 39

Forgetting further events Client finds it difficult to remember things that occurred BEFORE a traumatic event

Answer 39

Retrograde Amnesia

Question 39

Complete absence of memory

Answer 39

Amnesia

Question 39

Forgetting recent events Client finds it difficult to remember things that occur AFTER a traumatic event

Answer 39

Anterograde Amnesia (Goldfield's Syndrome)

Question 39

Incomplete absence of memory

Answer 39

Paraamnesia

Question 40

Fabricating storied to fill up lapses of memory caused by anterograde amnesia

Answer 40

Confabulation

Question 41

Amnesia experienced by alcoholics about behavior during drinking hour

Answer 41

Blackout

Question 42

Recollection of and belief in an event that did not actually occur

Answer 42

False Memory

Question 43

Temporary inability to remember a name or proper noun

Answer 43

Lethologica

Question 44

Familiarity of events that are unfamiliar "has seen"

Answer 44

Dejavu

Question 45

Unfamiliarity of events that are familiar “hasn’t seen”.

Answer 45

Jamais Vu

Question 46

Familiarity of sounds that are unfamiliar "has heard"

Answer 46

Deja Entendu

Question 47

Unfamiliarity of sounds that are familiar "hasn't heard"

Answer 47

Jamais Entendu