MENTAL HEALTH FINAL EXAM 3
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026 VERIFIED
ANSWERS
◉ Charting Attitude. Answer: cooperative/uncooperative
friendly/hostile
polite
indifferent
oversensitive
negative
respectful
attentive
guarded
suspicious
defensive
◉ Charting Attention. Answer: Normal- focused
Abnormal- interupting, unfocused, poor listening, distracted, fidgety
◉ Charting Consciousness. Answer: clear, oriented
degree of confusion
,obtunded
sedated/lethargic
◉ Obtunded. Answer: Less than full alertness (altered level of
consciousness), typically as a result of a medical condition or
trauma.
-depression
◉ Charting Rapport. Answer: normal-engaged, good, fair
abnormal- poor, indifferent, too engaging
◉ Apathy. Answer: a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest, concerns
◉ Anhedonia. Answer: inability to experience pleasure
-depression
◉ Avolition. Answer: lack of energy or dirve
◉ Catatonic. Answer: stupor- extreme state of psychomotor
retardation, mutism, negativism, and posturing
◉ Compulsion. Answer: compelling; strong desire that is difficult to
control; irresistible impulse
,◉ Confabulation. Answer: the unintended false recollection of
episodic memories
-dementia
◉ Congruent. Answer: verbal and nonverbal messages that express
the same meaning
◉ Delirium. Answer: reversible state of mental confusion with
disoriented often with hallucinations incoherent speech and aimless
physical activity
◉ Delusions. Answer: fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change
in light of conflicting evidence
◉ Dementia. Answer: progressive impairment of intellectual
function that interferes with performing activities of daily living
◉ Depersonalization. Answer: Altering of perception that causes
people to temporarily lose a sense of their own reality; most
prevalent in people with the dissociative disorders. There is often a
feeling of being outside observers of their own behavior.
-mania
, ◉ Derailment. Answer: person's ideas slip off one track and onto
another
-completely or minimally unrelated
◉ Displacement. Answer: shifting of an emotion from a person or
objection from which is was originally intended
◉ EPS (extrapyramidal symptoms). Answer: A variety of signs and
symptoms that are often side effects of the use of certain
psychotropic drugs, particularly phenothiazines. Three reversible
extrapyramidal side effects are acute dystonia, akathisia, and
pseudoparkinsonism. A fourth, tardive dyskinesia, is the most
serious and is not reversible.
-SE of antipsychotic drugs
◉ Flight of Ideas. Answer: rapidly changing or disjointed thoughts
◉ Hypomania. Answer: A mild manic state in which the individual
seems infectiously merry, extremely talkative, charming, and tireless.
◉ Ideas of Reference. Answer: incorrect interpretation of casual
incidents and external events as having direct personal references
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026 VERIFIED
ANSWERS
◉ Charting Attitude. Answer: cooperative/uncooperative
friendly/hostile
polite
indifferent
oversensitive
negative
respectful
attentive
guarded
suspicious
defensive
◉ Charting Attention. Answer: Normal- focused
Abnormal- interupting, unfocused, poor listening, distracted, fidgety
◉ Charting Consciousness. Answer: clear, oriented
degree of confusion
,obtunded
sedated/lethargic
◉ Obtunded. Answer: Less than full alertness (altered level of
consciousness), typically as a result of a medical condition or
trauma.
-depression
◉ Charting Rapport. Answer: normal-engaged, good, fair
abnormal- poor, indifferent, too engaging
◉ Apathy. Answer: a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest, concerns
◉ Anhedonia. Answer: inability to experience pleasure
-depression
◉ Avolition. Answer: lack of energy or dirve
◉ Catatonic. Answer: stupor- extreme state of psychomotor
retardation, mutism, negativism, and posturing
◉ Compulsion. Answer: compelling; strong desire that is difficult to
control; irresistible impulse
,◉ Confabulation. Answer: the unintended false recollection of
episodic memories
-dementia
◉ Congruent. Answer: verbal and nonverbal messages that express
the same meaning
◉ Delirium. Answer: reversible state of mental confusion with
disoriented often with hallucinations incoherent speech and aimless
physical activity
◉ Delusions. Answer: fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change
in light of conflicting evidence
◉ Dementia. Answer: progressive impairment of intellectual
function that interferes with performing activities of daily living
◉ Depersonalization. Answer: Altering of perception that causes
people to temporarily lose a sense of their own reality; most
prevalent in people with the dissociative disorders. There is often a
feeling of being outside observers of their own behavior.
-mania
, ◉ Derailment. Answer: person's ideas slip off one track and onto
another
-completely or minimally unrelated
◉ Displacement. Answer: shifting of an emotion from a person or
objection from which is was originally intended
◉ EPS (extrapyramidal symptoms). Answer: A variety of signs and
symptoms that are often side effects of the use of certain
psychotropic drugs, particularly phenothiazines. Three reversible
extrapyramidal side effects are acute dystonia, akathisia, and
pseudoparkinsonism. A fourth, tardive dyskinesia, is the most
serious and is not reversible.
-SE of antipsychotic drugs
◉ Flight of Ideas. Answer: rapidly changing or disjointed thoughts
◉ Hypomania. Answer: A mild manic state in which the individual
seems infectiously merry, extremely talkative, charming, and tireless.
◉ Ideas of Reference. Answer: incorrect interpretation of casual
incidents and external events as having direct personal references
