Mental Health Assessment (Holistic Exam 3) Practice Questions and Answers

Mental Health Assessment (Holistic Exam 3) Practice Questions and Answers Mental Health assessment - Answer-- Discuss how both mental health and mental disorders affect your mental status - Describe risk factors for mental disorders and substance abuse across various cultures - Differentiate between skills needed for general routine screening and skills for focused speciality assessment of mental status and risk of substance abuse Use Saint Louis University Status (SLUMS) Exam tool to assess what? - Answer-Cognitive function Use Glasgow Coma Scale to asses what? - Answer-One's level of consciousness (response to stimuli) when at high risk for deterioration of the nervous system Cultural considerations - Answer-Mental illness may be possession of evil spirits or cursed. - Some cultures feel that mental illness is a punishment - Can't talk about mental illness, seen as a weakness Mental status refers to - Answer-A client's level of cognitive functioning (thinking, knowledge, problem solving) and emotional functioning (feelings, mood, behaviors, stability) GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR ©2024. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER, 2024 Page 2/8 Blocking - Answer-sudden interruption in train of thought Confabulation - Answer-Fabricates events to fill memory gaps Neologism - Answer-Coining new word has no meaning to anyone but the person who coined it Circumstantiality - Answer-Talks with excessive details that are not needed Loosening - Answer-Shifting from one topic to another unrelated topic Word Salad - Answer-Incoherent mixture of words, phrases, and sentences Echolalia - Answer-Imitation, repeats others words or phrases often mumbling/mocking Clanging - Answer-Word choice based on sound, not meaning- includes nonsense rhymes Preseveration - Answer-Persistent repeating of verbal or motor response Delirium onset - Answer-Acute (hours to days) Delirium course - Answer-fluctuating Delirium duration - Answer-Hours to weeks Delirium consciousness - Answer-Altered Delirium attention - Answer-impaired Delirium psychomotor changes - Answer-increased or decreased GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR ©2024. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER, 2024 Page 3/8 Delirium reversibility - Answer-usually Geriatric Depression Scale - Answer-a tool to assess for risk of depression in older adults Common treatment options= Psychotherapy, anti depressive medication, and electroconvulsive therapy Geriatric depression - Answer-- 5 needs further follow up - Depression can be recurring - Prompt intervention required - Prevention and treatment most important Mini-Cog Test - Answer-- Quick and easy to use instrument to screen for cognitive impairment * 3 item recall and clock drawing test * Only repeating 1-2 words indicates possible dementia * None of the words indicates dementia * Inability to draw a full clock indicates cognitive impairment Glasgow Coma Scale - Answer-Clients who have experienc