HISTORY
This influences many aspects of personality and decision making.
What is Culture?
Self-Concept
Personal view of self
What you first see when you look at a client.
What is physical apperance?
Lack of emotional response, especially in the face.
What is a flat affect?
A "bowl" full of useless words
What is word salad
You are observing this when you look at your patient head to toe.
General appearance
The patient should be this X3
What is Orientation
A personal factor that has an influence on maturity, knowledge, beliefs, physical and mental health.
What is a persons age.
Relationship that is romantic, sexual, dating, cohabitation or spending time with someone that is more than a friend.
What are significant relationships
The act of caring for ones hygiene.
What is personal grooming.
Laughing at a sad situation.
What is an inappropriate affect?
Verbal wandering and never getting to the point
Tangential thinking
The patient moves like a turtle (over all slow movements)
Psychomotor retardation
The ability to recall past events
What is memory?
The story of the clients medical past.
What is a previous health history?
The aspects of ones personality that helps to define their self
Personal qualities or attributes
The way one carry's themselves.
What is posture.
Considered to be a normal affect.
What is a broad affect?
If someone believed the moon was made of cheese you would think they were...
What is delusional
It is important to observe this for unusual patterns, cadence, relevance, and ability to stay on track.
What is speech
Also part of assessing thought process and Content
Staying focused, paying attention
What is concentration (ability to concentrate)
This represents level at which a person functions both physically and mentally.
What is developmental age.
Reference to ones health and health habits
What is the physical self.
Some cultures avoid this as they feel it may look into their soul.
What is eye contact?
When a client shows a variety of emotions over a short period of time that may be excessive, dramatic, or inappropriate.
What is a labile mood or affect?
Excessive amount and rate of speech composed of fragmented or unrelated ideas
What is flight of ideas?
Invented words that have meaning only for the client
Neologisms
The ability to make associations or interpretations about a situation or comment.
What is abstract thinking?
A list of chemical interventions.
What is a medication history, medication list?
The positive aspects of a person.
What are personal qualities or attributes?
The term describing when two factors do not align.
What is incongruence?
a delusional belief that others are putting ideas or thoughts into the client’s head—that is, the ideas are not those of the client
What is thought insertion
Maintenance of posture or position over time even when it is awkward or uncomfortable
What is waxy flexibility
a condition in which a patient's limbs retain any position into which they are manipulated by another person and which occurs especially in catatonic schizophrenia
Increased Muscle tone at rest
When the client continually gives literal translations
What is concrete thinking.
Means by which a person expresses their transcendental self.
What is spirituality?
The outward expression of feelings or emotion.
What is affect?
The proverb given in the textbook to demonstrated abstract vs concrete thinking
What is a stitch in time saves nine?