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refers to the ability to recognize

the nature of one's own attitude, emotions, andbehavior.

refers to a remission of symptoms

in mental illness when the patients reasoning and

judgment appear to be normal to brief period.

are sensory perceptions that

occur in the absence of an actual external stimulus.

They may be auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, or

tactile in nature. Hallucinations occur in clients with

substance-related disorders, schizophrenia, and manic

disorders.

Misperception of actual environmental

stimuli.

overall slowed

movements

maintenance of posture or

position over time even when it is awkward or

uncomfortable

refers to the clients pervasive and enduring

emotional state.

is the outward expression of the clients

emotional state.

showing little or a slow-to-

respond facial expression

displaying a full range of emotional

expressions

showing no facial expression

displaying a facial

expression that is incongruent with mood or situation;often silly or giddy regardless of circumstance

When the client exhibits

unpredictable and rapid mood swings from depressed

and crying to euphoria with no apparent stimuli

Contradictory or opposing emotions,

attitudes, ideas, or desires for the same person, thing,

or situation

: term used when a

client eventually answers a question but only after

giving excessive unnecessary detail

a fixed, false belief not based in reality

excessive amount and rate of

speech composed of fragmented or unrelated ideas

Ideas of reference: clients inaccurate interpretation

that general events are personally directed to him or

her such as hearing a speech on the news and

believing the message had personal meaning

disorganized thinking that

jumps from one idea to another with little or no

evident relation between the thoughts

wandering off the topic

and never providing the information requested

flow of unconnected words that

convey no meaning to the listener

refers to the clients recognition of

person, place, and time; that is, knowing who and

where he or she is and the correct day, date, and

year.

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are ideas that are related

to one another based on sound or rhyming rather

than meaning.

Example: I will take a pill if I go up the hill but not if

my name is Jill, I dont want to kill.

are words invented by the client.

Example: Im afraid of grittiz. If there are any grittiz

here, I will have to leave. Are you a grittiz?

is the stereotyped repetition of

words or phrases that may or may not have meaning

to the listener.

Example: I want to go home, go home, go home, go

home.

is the clients imitation or repetition of

what the nurse says.

Example: Nurse:Can you tell me how youre feeling?

Client: Can you tell me how youre feeling, how

youre feeling?

is use of words or phrases

that are flowery, excessive, and pompous.

Example: Would you be so kind, as a representative

of Florence Nightingale, as to do me the honor ofproviding just a wee bit of refreshment, perhaps in the

form of some clear spring water?

is the persistent adherence to a

single idea or topic and verbal repetition of a

sentence, phrase, or word, even when another

person attempts to change the topic.

Example: Nurse: How have you been sleeping

lately? Client: I think people have been following

me. Nurse:Where do you live?

Client:At my place people have been following me.

Nurse: What do you like to do in you free time?Client:Nothing because people are following me.

is a combination of jumbled words

and phrases that are disconnected or incoherent and

make no sense to the listener.

Example: Corn, potatoes, jump up, play games, grass,

cupboard.

exaggerated or

unrealistic sense of importance, power, or identity

Belief that others

are out to cause harm or to persecute or antagonize

Belief that everything

in the environment is somehow related to oneself

An

unrealistic belief that about the body

Belief that someone or

something is controlling oneself

Belief that

someone is putting ideas or thoughts into ones mind

Belief that one has a

special status with God

Belief that someone famous is in lovewith him

Reference: Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing by Sheila Videbeck