Term
| What part of the history is described in the patient's own words? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What are the major diagnostic criteria for mental illness? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What two general medical disorders are important to recognize in psych patients because of potential medication interactions? |
|
Definition
| neurologic d/os and diabetes |
|
|
Term
| What item in the past medical history can lead to psychiatric d/os and seizures? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What do you call medications that are given via injection at a dr's appointment and last the patient for weeks? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| what do you call a patient with a normal mood? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What should you ask about in a past psychiatric history? |
|
Definition
| previous diagnosis, hospitalizations, previous medications and reasons for failure/noncompliance, previous clinic followup |
|
|
Term
| What are the main components of the mental status exam? |
|
Definition
| apperance, psychomotor activity, attitude, mood, affect, speech, thought process, thought content, cognition, |
|
|
Term
| What are words used to describe psychomotor activity? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What are words used to describe attitude? |
|
Definition
| hostile, cooperative, uncooperative |
|
|
Term
| What words are used to describe mood? |
|
Definition
| depressed, euthymic, euphoric, irritable |
|
|
Term
| What words are used to describe affect? |
|
Definition
| depressed, full, labile, constricted>blunted>flat |
|
|
Term
| How do you characterize speech? |
|
Definition
| rate, tone, and volume (increased, decreased, pressured) |
|
|
Term
| How do you describe thought process? |
|
Definition
| linear/goal-directed, circumstantial, tangential, LOA (looseness of association), flight of ideas (FOI), thought blocking, world salad |
|
|
Term
| What do you call a worse form of tangential thought process? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Patients with what disease can have thought blocking? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| How do you characterize a patients thought content? |
|
Definition
| SI, HI, AH, VH, TH, OH, delusions (grandiose, bizarre, persecutory, somatic erotomaniac) |
|
|
Term
| What are the typical types of bizarre delusions? |
|
Definition
| thought broadcasting, thought insertions, ideas of referrance |
|
|
Term
| How do you characterize a patient's cognition? |
|
Definition
| level of consciousness, orientation, memory, concentration/attention, abstractin, intelligence, insight/judgment |
|
|
Term
| A/O x 4 means the patient is alert and oriented to... |
|
Definition
| person, place, time, situation |
|
|
Term
| What are the four diagnostic axes? |
|
Definition
I= primary diagnosis
II= MR, personality d/os
III= general medical d/os
IV= psychosocial, environmental problem
V= global assessment of functioning (0-100) |
|
|
