Mental Status Exam Flashcards
1
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list components
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General -appearance -behavior -speech -psychomotor Cognition -attention/concern -memory Mood Affect Perception Thought Content -SI -HI -delusions Thought Form/Organization Intelligence Abstraction Judgement Insight
2
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appearance
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grooming, description, injuries
3
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behavior
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pacing, cooperative, eye contact
4
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speech
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rate, rhythm, volume
5
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psychomotor
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agitation, retardation
6
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attention/concern
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spell world backwards
7
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memory
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3 objects and repeat in 2 min
8
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mood
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ask them
9
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affect
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describe + congruence with mood
labile, stabile. euthymic, dysthymic, etc.
10
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perception
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AVH
11
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thought content
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delusions elicited/ not elicited
strange beliefs?
12
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thought form
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linear, goal directed, tangential, circumferential
13
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intelligence
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highest level of ed
14
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abstraction
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ask what a common phrase means
“dont cry over spilt milk”
15
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judgement
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what would you do if you found an addresses and stamped envelope on the ground?
