Appearance, Behaviour, and Speech
What is disheveled?
How nurses often document, "alert and oriented to person, place and time."
What is A+Ox3
A state in which a person has difficulty differentiating reality from non-reality
What is psychosis?
Feeling sensations that aren't real
What are somatic hallucinations?
Includes emotional, social, and psychological wellbeing
What is mental health?
Can be described as appropriate, intermittent, absent, or staring.
How a person describes the way they are feeling.
What is mood?
False fixed beliefs
What are delusions?
Hallucinations that instruct a person to do something.
What are command hallucinations?
A set of techniques that promote rapport building and psychological wellbeing
What is therapeutic communication?
Sudden repetitive movements or sounds that are difficult to control.
What are tics?
A person's outward presentation does not match their described mood.
Jumping from topic to topic without completing each train of thought
What is flight of ideas?
These are aspects of a persons life that promote wellbeing.
What are protective factors?
Stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness.
What is unconscious bias?
Rapid speech with a sense of urgency
What is pressured speech?
Lack of physical and sometimes verbal response to changes in mood, environment, and situation.
What is a flat affect?
Persistent repetition of the same thought.
What is perseveration?
Thinking about suicide without making a plan.
What is passive suicidal ideation?
Seeing, understanding, and sharing others' viewpoints without judgment
What is empathy?
Meaningless repetition of words another person has just said
What is echolalia?
A persons understanding of the world around them and their illness.
What is insight?
Non-threatening body positioning to use in potential crisis situations that help people feel safer.
What is the supportive stance?
Talk therapy that focuses on challenging core beliefs, thoughts, behaviours, and emotions.
What is cognitive behavioural therapy?