Thought Process/Content
Mood/Affect
Behavior/Speech
Therapy
Misc
100

"He humoungous it them blue cloud Albequerque cold though." 

Word Salad

100

The term used to describe the objective presentation of a client's emotional state

Affect

100

The term used to describe a patient who gets off topic very quickly, and never answers the question or gets to the point

Tangential

100

This psychoanalyst stated that all behavior can be explained

Freud

100

The diagnosis used to describe a patient who is feigning symptoms for secondary gains

Malingering

200

The word for when you ask the patient a question and, though they take their time, they eventually get the point 

Circumstantial

200

Someone's affect is ________ if they appear completely devoid of emotion

Flat

200

A side effect of antipsychotics describing an overwhelming need to move

Akathisia

200

According to Freud, this is the part of the psyche responsible for defense mechanisms

The ego

200

The diagnosis for someone who makes themselves very sick for the purpose of assuming the sick role

Munchausen's / Factitious disorder

300

The term for bouncing around from topic to topic in a short amount of time

Flight of ideas

300

When someone's mood does not match their affect, we would say that the affect is _________ to their mood

Incongruent

300

The only EPS that is typically considered irreversible

Tardive dyskinesia

300

Instead of giving advice, the nurse uses this technique to help the client identify reasons to change. (The client hears what they need to hear from their own mouth)

Motivational Interviewing

300

"You should stop drinking and go to AA, then you won't end up back in the hospital", is an example of this kind of nontherapeutic communication 

Giving Advice

400

To assess thought content, the nurse must ask about ______ and ______ ideation. 

Suicidal and homicidal

400

The term used to describe a state of happiness/contentment, a baseline good mood

Euthymic

400
The nurse may ask "What should you do if you found an envelope that was addressed and stamped on the ground, very near the mailbox" to assess this

Judgment 

400
A person used to say "I am a bad person", but has recently started saying "I am a good person, but I sometimes do bad things." This kind of psychotherapy probably helped him come to this conclusion

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

400

This nursing theorist defined the stages of the therapeutic, nurse-client relationship

Hildegard Peplau

500

"I own this hospital and will give you a million dollar bonus because you've been so nice to me" is an example of this type of delusion

Grandiose 

500

Happy one moment, angry the next, and sad shortly thereafter... The term describe this type of affect

Labile

500

When a client has pressured speech, the nurse should immediately think of this diagnosis

Mania or bipolar disorder

500

To extinguish a phobia, the therapist may slowly expose a patient to increasingly distressing stimuli, which is a method called

systematic desensitization

500

According to Erickson, this is the crisis that must be resolved for those over the age of 65

Ego Integrity vs. Despair