Mental Health Assessment (Holistic
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Mental Health assessment
✓ - 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?
✓ Cognitive function
Use Glasgow Coma Scale to asses what?
✓ One's level of consciousness (response to stimuli) when at high risk for deterioration of the
nervous system
Cultural considerations
✓ 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
✓ A client's level of cognitive functioning (thinking, knowledge, problem solving) and
emotional functioning (feelings, mood, behaviors, stability)
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✓ sudden interruption in train of thought
Confabulation
✓ Fabricates events to fill memory gaps
Neologism
✓ Coining new word has no meaning to anyone but the person who coined it
Circumstantiality
✓ Talks with excessive details that are not needed
Loosening
✓ Shifting from one topic to another unrelated topic
Word Salad
✓ Incoherent mixture of words, phrases, and sentences
Echolalia
✓ Imitation, repeats others words or phrases often mumbling/mocking
Clanging
✓ Word choice based on sound, not meaning- includes nonsense rhymes
Preseveration
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