Across
- 1. Mental health is _______ and ongoing
- 4. When a person has an abnormal volume and pitch, this is termed what
- 6. Assessing your patient’s awareness of objects through the five senses, means you are assessing what
- 7. Mental status is a person’s emotional (feeling) and ______ (knowing) function
- 8. A gradual progressive process, causing decreased cognitive function even though the person is fully conscious and awake; it is not reversible
- 11. This disorder is caused by brain disease of known specific organic cause (i.e. delirium, alcohol intoxication, and withdrawal)
Down
- 2. The full mental status examination is a systematic check of emotional and cognitive functioning. The four main headings of a mental status assessment is: _________, Behavior, Cognition, and Thought processes (A, B , C, T)
- 3. A full mental status exam can be utilized for assessing language dysfunction and any emotional problems associated with it. One type of language dysfunction is where the patient has an impairment of language ability secondary to brain damage. What type of abnormality is this?
- 5. Assessing your patient’s awareness of the objective world in relation to the self (i.e. person, place, time), means you are assessing what
- 8. An acute confusional change or loss of consciousness and perceptual disturbance, may accompany acute illness such as pneumonia, and is usually resolved when the underlying cause is treated
- 9. Assessing your patient’s ability to lay down and store experiences and perceptions for later recall (i.e. recent and remote memory), means you are assessing what
- 10. This type of disorder is apparent when a person’s response is much greater then the expected reaction to a traumatic life event