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NR 509 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE BEHAVIOR/MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND
MODIFICATION FOR AGE LATEST UPDATE RATED A+ DOWNLOAD TO SCORE A
Behavior/Mental Health Assessment and Modification for Age
-Unexplained conditions lasting >6weeks should prompt screening for depression, anxiety, or
both
-PRIME-MD (Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders). 26 questions and take 10 minutes
to complete. Used for the 5 most common=anxiety, depression, alcohol, somatoform, and
eating disorders.
-Patient indications for Mental Health Screening:
1. Medically unexplained physical symptoms-more than half have depression and
anxiety disorders
2. Multiple physical or somatic symptoms or high symptom count
3.High severity of the presenting somatic symptoms, chronic pain
4.Symptoms for more than 6 weeks
5. Physician rating as a “difficult encounter”
6. Recent stress
7.Low-self rating of overall health
8.Frequent use of health care services
9.Substance abuse.
-CAGE=substance-related and addictive disorders
Modification for Age
Elderly:
-Complain of memory problems but usually is due to benign forgetfulness
-Retrieve and process data more slowly and take longer to learn new information
-Slower motor responses and their ability to perform complex task may diminish
-Important to distinguish age-related changes from manifestations of mental disorders
-More susceptible to delirium which can be the first sign of infection, problems with
medications, or impending dementia
Infant: Assess mental status of a newborn=observing newborn activities 1.Look at
human faces and turn to parents voice
,NR 509 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE BEHAVIOR/MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND
MODIFICATION FOR AGE LATEST UPDATE RATED A+ DOWNLOAD TO SCORE A
2. Ability to shout out repetitive stimuli
3. Bond with caregiver
4.Self-soothe
Normal VS. Abnormal Findings and Interpretation
-Mood disorders: compulsions, obsessions, phobias, and anxieties
-Lethargic: drowsy, but open their eyes and look at you, respond to questions, and then fall
asleep.
-Obtunded: open their eyes and look at you, but respond slowly and are somewhat confused.
-Agitated depression: crying, pacing, and hand-wringing
-Depression: the hopeless slumped posture and slowed movements.
-Grooming and personal hygiene may deteriorate: Depression, schizophrenia, and dementia
-Manic Episode: the agitated and expansive movement of a manic episode
,NR 509 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE BEHAVIOR/MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND
MODIFICATION FOR AGE LATEST UPDATE RATED A+ DOWNLOAD TO SCORE A
-Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Excessive fastidiousness
-Lesion parietal cortex: one side neglect in the opposite parietal cortex, usually in the
nondominant side
-Parkinsonism: facial immobility
-Paranoia: anger, hostility, suspiciousness, or evasiveness
-Mania: Elation and euphoria
-Schizophrenia: flat affect and remoteness
-Apathy (dull affect with detachment and indifference): dementia, anxiety, and depression
-Hallucination: schizophrenia, alcohol withdrawal, and systemic toxicity
-Amnestic Disorders: impaired memory or new learning ability and reduce social or
occupational functioning, but lack the global features of delirium and or dementia. Anxiety and
depression, and intellectual disability may also cause recent memory impairment.
-Calculating ability: poor performance = dementia or aphasia
-Variations and abnormalities in thought processes:
1. Circumstantiality: The mildest thought disorder, consisting of speech with unnecessary detail,
indirections, and delay in reaching the point. Some topics may have a meaningful connection
-Occurs in people with obsessions
2. Derailment: Tangential, speech with shifting from topics that are loosely connected or
unrelated. The patient is unaware of the lack of association
-Schizophrenia, manic episodes, and other psychotic disorders
3. Flight of ideas, an almost continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from
one topic to the next. Changes are based on understandable associations, play on words, or
distracting stimuli, but ideas are not well connected.
-Manic episodes
4. Neologisms: invented or distorted words, or words with new and highly idiosyncratic
meanings
-Schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, and aphasia
5. Incoherence: Speech that is incomprehensible and illogical, with lack of meaningful
connections, abrupt changes in topic, or disordered grammar or word use. Flight of ideas,
when severe, may produce incoherence
-Schizophrenia
, NR 509 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE BEHAVIOR/MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND
MODIFICATION FOR AGE LATEST UPDATE RATED A+ DOWNLOAD TO SCORE A
6. Blocking: Sudden interruption of speech in mid sentence or before the idea is
completed “losing the thought”
-Schizophrenia
7. Confabulation: Fabrication of facts or events, to fill in the gaps from impaired memory
-Korsakoff syndrome from alcoholism
8. Perseveration: persistent repetition of words or ideas
-Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders
9. Echolalia: Repetition of the words and phrases of others
-Manic episodes or Schizo
10. Clanging: Speech with choice of words based on sound, rather than meaning, as in rhyming
and punning. Example: “look at my eyes and nose, wise eyes and rosy nose. To to one, the ayes
have it!”
-Schizo and manic episodes
Abnormalities of Perception
1. Illusions: misinterpretations of real external stimuli, such as mistaking rustling leaves for the
sounds of voices
-Grief, delirium, PTSD, Schizo
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