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Chapter 5 Ashley (1-6)/ Catlin (7-9)
Behavior/Mental Health Assessment and Modification for Age
-Unexplained conditions lasting >6weeks should prompt screening for depression,
anxiety, or both
-PRIME-MD (Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders). 26 questions and take 10
minutes to complete. Used for the 5 most common=anxiety, depression, alcohol,
somatoform, and eating disorders.
-Patient indications for Mental Health Screening:
1. Medically unexplained physical symptoms-more than half have depression and
anxiety disorders
2. Multiple physical or somatic symptoms or high symptom count
3.High severity of the presenting somatic symptoms, chronic pain
4.Symptoms for more than 6 weeks
5. Physician rating as a “difficult encounter”
6. Recent stress
7.Low-self rating of overall health
8.Frequent use of health care services
9.Substance abuse.
-CAGE=substance-related and addictive disorders
Modification for Age
Elderly:
-Complain of memory problems but usually is due to benign forgetfulness
-Retrieve and process data more slowly and take longer to learn new information
-Slower motor responses and their ability to perform complex task may diminish
-Important to distinguish age-related changes from manifestations of mental disorders
-More susceptible to delirium which can be the first sign of infection, problems
with medications, or impending dementia
Infant: Assess mental status of a newborn=observing newborn activities
1.Look at human faces and turn to parents voice
2. Ability to shout out repetitive stimuli
3. Bond with caregiver
4.Self-soothe
Normal VS. Abnormal Findings and Interpretation
-Mood disorders: compulsions, obsessions, phobias, and anxieties
-Lethargic: drowsy, but open their eyes and look at you, respond to questions, and then
fall asleep.
-Obtunded: open their eyes and look at you, but respond slowly and are somewhat
confused.
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-Agitated depression: crying, pacing, and hand-wringing
-Depression: the hopeless slumped posture and slowed movements.
-Grooming and personal hygiene may deteriorate: Depression, schizophrenia, and
dementia
-Manic Episode: the agitated and expansive movement of a manic episode
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-Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Excessive fastidiousness
-Lesion parietal cortex: one side neglect in the opposite parietal cortex, usually in the
nondominant side
-Parkinsonism: facial immobility
-Paranoia: anger, hostility, suspiciousness, or evasiveness
-Mania: Elation and euphoria
-Schizophrenia: flat affect and remoteness
-Apathy (dull affect with detachment and indifference): dementia, anxiety, and depression
-Hallucination: schizophrenia, alcohol withdrawal, and systemic toxicity
-Amnestic Disorders: impaired memory or new learning ability and reduce social or
occupational functioning, but lack the global features of delirium and or dementia.
Anxiety and depression, and intellectual disability may also cause recent memory
impairment.
-Calculating ability: poor performance = dementia or aphasia
-Variations and abnormalities in thought processes:
1. Circumstantiality: The mildest thought disorder, consisting of speech with
unnecessary detail, indirections, and delay in reaching the point. Some topics may have
a meaningful connection
-Occurs in people with obsessions
2. Derailment: Tangential, speech with shifting from topics that are loosely connected
or unrelated. The patient is unaware of the lack of association
-Schizophrenia, manic episodes, and other psychotic disorders
3. Flight of ideas, an almost continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes
from one topic to the next. Changes are based on understandable associations, play on
words, or distracting stimuli, but ideas are not well connected.
-Manic episodes
4. Neologisms: invented or distorted words, or words with new and highly
idiosyncratic meanings
-Schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, and aphasia
5. Incoherence: Speech that is incomprehensible and illogical, with lack of
meaningful connections, abrupt changes in topic, or disordered grammar or word
use. Flight of ideas, when severe, may produce incoherence
-Schizophrenia
6. Blocking: Sudden interruption of speech in mid sentence or before the idea
is completed “losing the thought”
-Schizophrenia
7. Confabulation: Fabrication of facts or events, to fill in the gaps from impaired memory
-Korsakoff syndrome from alcoholism
8. Perseveration: persistent repetition of words or ideas
-Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders
9. Echolalia: Repetition of the words and phrases of others
-Manic episodes or Schizo
10. Clanging: Speech with choice of words based on sound, rather than meaning, as in
rhyming and punning. Example: “look at my eyes and nose, wise eyes and rosy nose.
To to one, the ayes have it!”
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-Schizo and manic episodes
Abnormalities of Perception
1. Illusions: misinterpretations of real external stimuli, such as mistaking rustling
leaves for the sounds of voices
-Grief, delirium, PTSD, Schizo
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NR 509 Final Exam Study Guide. Sign up for an individual topic or chapter, whichever
you prefer. Please have section completed by October 5th :)
Chapter 5 Ashley (1-6)/ Catlin (7-9)
Behavior/Mental Health Assessment and Modification for Age
-Unexplained conditions lasting >6weeks should prompt screening for depression,
anxiety, or both
-PRIME-MD (Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders). 26 questions and take 10
minutes to complete. Used for the 5 most common=anxiety, depression, alcohol,
somatoform, and eating disorders.
-Patient indications for Mental Health Screening:
1. Medically unexplained physical symptoms-more than half have depression and
anxiety disorders
2. Multiple physical or somatic symptoms or high symptom count
3.High severity of the presenting somatic symptoms, chronic pain
4.Symptoms for more than 6 weeks
5. Physician rating as a “difficult encounter”
6. Recent stress
7.Low-self rating of overall health
8.Frequent use of health care services
9.Substance abuse.
-CAGE=substance-related and addictive disorders
Modification for Age
Elderly:
-Complain of memory problems but usually is due to benign forgetfulness
-Retrieve and process data more slowly and take longer to learn new information
-Slower motor responses and their ability to perform complex task may diminish
-Important to distinguish age-related changes from manifestations of mental disorders
-More susceptible to delirium which can be the first sign of infection, problems
with medications, or impending dementia
Infant: Assess mental status of a newborn=observing newborn activities
1.Look at human faces and turn to parents voice
2. Ability to shout out repetitive stimuli
3. Bond with caregiver
4.Self-soothe
Normal VS. Abnormal Findings and Interpretation
-Mood disorders: compulsions, obsessions, phobias, and anxieties
-Lethargic: drowsy, but open their eyes and look at you, respond to questions, and then
fall asleep.
-Obtunded: open their eyes and look at you, but respond slowly and are somewhat
confused.
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,NR 509NR509 (2)Group Final Exam (2).
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-Agitated depression: crying, pacing, and hand-wringing
-Depression: the hopeless slumped posture and slowed movements.
-Grooming and personal hygiene may deteriorate: Depression, schizophrenia, and
dementia
-Manic Episode: the agitated and expansive movement of a manic episode
NR 509NR509 (2)Group Final Exam (2).
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,NR 509NR509 (2)Group Final Exam (2).
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-Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Excessive fastidiousness
-Lesion parietal cortex: one side neglect in the opposite parietal cortex, usually in the
nondominant side
-Parkinsonism: facial immobility
-Paranoia: anger, hostility, suspiciousness, or evasiveness
-Mania: Elation and euphoria
-Schizophrenia: flat affect and remoteness
-Apathy (dull affect with detachment and indifference): dementia, anxiety, and depression
-Hallucination: schizophrenia, alcohol withdrawal, and systemic toxicity
-Amnestic Disorders: impaired memory or new learning ability and reduce social or
occupational functioning, but lack the global features of delirium and or dementia.
Anxiety and depression, and intellectual disability may also cause recent memory
impairment.
-Calculating ability: poor performance = dementia or aphasia
-Variations and abnormalities in thought processes:
1. Circumstantiality: The mildest thought disorder, consisting of speech with
unnecessary detail, indirections, and delay in reaching the point. Some topics may have
a meaningful connection
-Occurs in people with obsessions
2. Derailment: Tangential, speech with shifting from topics that are loosely connected
or unrelated. The patient is unaware of the lack of association
-Schizophrenia, manic episodes, and other psychotic disorders
3. Flight of ideas, an almost continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes
from one topic to the next. Changes are based on understandable associations, play on
words, or distracting stimuli, but ideas are not well connected.
-Manic episodes
4. Neologisms: invented or distorted words, or words with new and highly
idiosyncratic meanings
-Schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, and aphasia
5. Incoherence: Speech that is incomprehensible and illogical, with lack of
meaningful connections, abrupt changes in topic, or disordered grammar or word
use. Flight of ideas, when severe, may produce incoherence
-Schizophrenia
6. Blocking: Sudden interruption of speech in mid sentence or before the idea
is completed “losing the thought”
-Schizophrenia
7. Confabulation: Fabrication of facts or events, to fill in the gaps from impaired memory
-Korsakoff syndrome from alcoholism
8. Perseveration: persistent repetition of words or ideas
-Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders
9. Echolalia: Repetition of the words and phrases of others
-Manic episodes or Schizo
10. Clanging: Speech with choice of words based on sound, rather than meaning, as in
rhyming and punning. Example: “look at my eyes and nose, wise eyes and rosy nose.
To to one, the ayes have it!”
NR 509NR509 (2)Group Final Exam (2).
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-Schizo and manic episodes
Abnormalities of Perception
1. Illusions: misinterpretations of real external stimuli, such as mistaking rustling
leaves for the sounds of voices
-Grief, delirium, PTSD, Schizo
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