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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 b...

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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)
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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
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