Quiz: Mental Status

Match each term with the appropriate description.

Age, sex, race, body build, posture, eye contact, dress, grooming, manner, attentiveness to a social worker, distinguishing features, prominent physical abnormalities, emotion management, facial expression, alertness, age-appropriateness.
Agitation, pacing, restlessness, inability to sit still, nervous shaking, abnormal movements, ticks, tremors, facial expressions, abnormal movements, catatonia.
Manner of walking, difficulty walking, limping, stumbling, running, hesitation, uncontrollable walking pattern.
Rate, volume, content, rhythm, amount, articulation, spontaneity, stuttering.

Match each term with the appropriate description.

Good posture, poor posture, sitting on the edge of the seat.
Friendly, cooperative, engaging, relaxed, withdrawn, hostile, irritable, resistant, shy, defensive.
Stability, range, appropriateness, intensity, mood.
Suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, obsessions, ruminations, phobias, ideas of reference, paranoid ideation, magical ideation, delusions, overvalued ideas.

Match each term with the appropriate description.

The understanding of a specific cause and effect within a particular context of illness, poor, fair, good.
Hallucinations, illusions, depersonalization, derealization.
Average, above average, below average.
The ability to focus based on internal or external priorities.

Match each term with the appropriate description.

The organization and execution of cognitive processes required to engage in appropriate behavior.
The ability to name objects and their function.
Verbal or written communication.
Recall of past events.

Match each term with the appropriate description.

The ability of a patient to recognize their place in time and space, oriented to person, time, and place (x 3).
The ability to recognize the emotional content of language.
Organization of thoughts in a goal-oriented pattern.