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What 5 components are included on the mental status exam?
- 1. General description
- 2. Emotional State
- 3. Perceptions
- 4. Thinking
- 5. Sensorium and Cognition
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What is overgeneralization?
Draws conclusions about things based on one single event.
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What is personalization?
Takes things personally when it is unjustified.
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What is dichotomous thinking?
Black and white. Good or bad.
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What is catastrophizing?
Thinking the worst will happen or the situation is worse than it is. Negative thinking.
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What is selective abstraction?
Getting caught up in the details and not considering all of the relevant information.
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What is arbitrary inference?
A negative conclusion formed without data to support it.
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What is mind reading?
Believing you know what others are thinking without checking it out.
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What is magnification/minimization?
Exaggerating or minimizing an event's importance.
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What is perfectionism?
To feel good about themselves, they must do everything perfectly.
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What is externalization of self-worth?
Basing one's value on another's approval.
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Which benzos are most addictive?
xanax, valium, atavan
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What is the definition of mild anxiety?
- occurs in day to day living
- motivates learning and produces growth and creativity
- does not affect perception and taking in information
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What is moderate anxiety?
- person focuses only on immediate concerns
- perceptual field narrowed
- blocks out selected areas
- can attend to more areas if directed to
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What is severe anxiety?
- significant redux in perceptual field
- focus only on specific detail
- behavior aimed at relieving anxiety
- needs direction to focus on other areas
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What 4 factors do you assess with anxiety?
- cognitive response-thinking ability, perceptual field, flight of ideas, etc.
- Affective responses-feelings, heart racing, pit in stomach, dread, terror, etc.
- Behavioral responses-agitated, restless, pacing, fidgeting, moving hands constantly, sighing, etc.
- Body response-sympathetic response
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