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Assignment | Mental State Exam | Annabelle's Thoughts

   

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TABLEOF CONTENTSQUESTION 1......................................................................................................................................3Thought form and thought content and state how they are related to Mental State Exam anddiscuss how Annabelle’s thoughts are disturbed.........................................................................3QUESTION 2......................................................................................................................................3Define perception as it relates to a MSE and then discuss how we might interpret howAnnabelle may have some disturbance in one or more of her senses.........................................3QUESTION 3......................................................................................................................................4Define both ‘affect’ and ‘mood’. How would you describe Annabelle’s mood and the rangeand intensity of her affect............................................................................................................4QUESTION 4......................................................................................................................................5Giving examples from the Case Study, how would you describe her behaviour and herappearance as set out in a MSE?..................................................................................................5REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................7
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QUESTION 1Thought form and thought content and state how they are related to Mental State Exam anddiscuss how Annabelle’s thoughts are disturbedThought form refers to the tempo of thoughts wherein some people experience flights ofideas and thoughts usually move so rapidly that further makes the speech incoherent. The formof thought indicate the specific problems which also includes several types of thought disordersuch as neologisms and derailment and that often changes the behaviour and attitude of a person(Nolan and et.al., 2016). There are several elements included in the thought form whereinindividual may be described as having retarded or inhibited thinking. This changes behaviour ofa person and may also get affected due to pattern of interruptions and disorganization of thoughtprocesses (ander, Lempinen, Ristkari and Klomek, 2016). Thought content describes a patient’s delusions, obsessions, phobias and preoccupations.Under this concept, thoughts keeps on changing and multiple thoughts come at a time in themind. It also changes the degree of belief that is associated with the thoughts. Suicidal, homicidalideas and feeling of obsession also considered in the thought content (Koslowski and et.al.,2016). Both the concepts are related to Mental State Exam which aids to find out comprehensivecross- sectional description of patient’s mental state. In the present case, Annabelle isexperiencing flights of ideas wherein she gets frequent changes in her speech and as a result, thismakes her speech incoherent. Although the registered nurse, have carefully observed a distinguish chain of poeticassociations in the patient’s speech (Poppen and et.al., 2016). Thus, it can be said that she hasfew associations in her mind which makes her scream when she sees the ceiling. In everysituation, a number of things come in her mind which ultimately changes her behaviour. In thissituation, registered nurses could have performed Mental State Examination which could revealcognitive impairment about patient (Annabelle).
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