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28 Cards in this Set
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hallucination
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the occurrence of a sight, sound, touch, smell or taste without any external stimulus to the sensory organs
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delusions
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fixed false beliefs that cannot be changed by logical reasoning
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loose associations
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disconnected thoughts, verbal ideas shift from one topic to another, there is no apparent relationship between thoughts and the person is unaware that topics are unconnected
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concrete
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refers to thinking characterized by a focus on facts and details and inability to generalize or think abstractly
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tangential
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thoughts veer from main idea and never get back to it
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mood
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the subjective emotional/feeling state that the client describes
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word salad
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the use of words indiscriminately and haphazardly without logical structure or meaning
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affect
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the emotional expression of a person that others may observe
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insight
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in the mental health status assessment refers to the degree of awareness that one has about their own mental illness
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ideas of reference
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remarks or actions by someone else that in no way refer to the person but that are interpreted as related to her or him ie pt believes that news anchor person is reporting on them
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pressured
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refers to speech that is loud and emphatic, increased in amount, accelerated, and usually difficult or impossible to interrupt
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clanging
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refers to speech marked by words grouped by their sound or rhyme and not by their meaning
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circumstantial
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a disturbance of associative thought and speech processes in which a person digresses into unnecessary, tedious details before communicating the central idea
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confabulation
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unconsciously filing in memory gaps with imagined material
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ruminations
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recurring mood-congruent thoughts
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Reaction Formation
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Former smoker preaches about smoking's dangers
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Identification
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Hero worship basis
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Projection
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Woman who is angry with her boss says, "you hate me!"
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Displacement
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Woman who is angry with her husband, slams cupboard doors
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Denial
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Mother with a developmentally disabled child saves for his college fund
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Sublimation
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Only healthy defense mechanism
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Repression
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Young woman, abused as a child, has no memory of the abuse
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Compensation
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Unattractive woman states, "I'm not pretty, but I'm smart."
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Rationalization
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Student says she didn't pass the exam because the instructor asked unfair questions
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Introjection
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Widow experiences headaches after husband died of a cerebral hemorrhage
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Conversion
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Young man develops a paralyzed arm during a heated argument with his father
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Regression
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Andy, 4, wets the bed after the birth of a baby sister
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Undoing
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After arguing with wife, husband brings her flowers
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