Appearance

dress & grooming

manner, congruence, seductive, slovenly, fastidious..

gait & posture

rigid, slumped, spastic, handicaps.

physical characteristics

manner, congruence, seductive, slovenly, fastidious..

facial expression

sad, suspicious, angry, silly, bland, immobile,flat,contorted, peculiar.

eye contact

seeks, maintains, avoids, decrements, tracking.

tics and mannerisms

grimacing, yelps, grunds, hair-pulling, repetitive.

motor activity

restlessness, psychomotor retardation, agitation.

Speech

rate

manner, congruence, seductive, slovenly, fastidious..

pressure

normal, slow, rapid, racing

amplitude

audible, inaudible, loud, soft, mumbled..

rhythm

abrupt, stacatto, clipped, stretched, hesitant, labored..

quality-modulation

modulation-congruence.

associations

tight, tangential, loose, circumstantial, fragmented.

manner

concrete, abstract, literal, semantic, spontaneous.

idiosyncrasies

stutter, lisping, misuse, neological, praphrasias.

prosody

expressive, receptive ..

Affect

quality

flat, blunted, constricted, odd, perplexed, threatening, curious, .

mood

sad, anxious, guarded, agitated, mellow, happy, euphoric.

range

limited, constricted, variable, wide.

stability

labile, stable.

modulation quality-

appropriate, incongruent.

congruence

appropriate, incongruent, monotonic.

relatedness

related, unrelated, difficult..

Thought Process

process

flow of ideas, blocking, parapraxias, associations..

content

distortions, delusions, reference, depersonalization..

preoccupations

obsessions, phobias, somatic concerns, over-religiosity, supernatural, morbid..

suicidality, homicidality

history of threats, gestures, attempts..

Perceptual- conceptual

illusions

flow of ideas, blocking, parapraxias.

delusions

persecution, grandeur, reference, other.

derelium

confusion, fugue.

depersonalization

transient, episodic, (frequency-duration-intensity).

derealization

transient, episodic, (frequency-duration-intensity).

dissociation

transient, episodic, (frequency-duration-intensity).

hallucinations

auditory, visual, olfactory, tactile.

distortions

cognitive dissonance (leon festinger) - cbt:associated with emotional disturbance.

flash-backs

cognitive dissonance (leon festinger) - cbt:associated with emotional disturbance.

Sensorium

consciousness

hyper alert, confused, drowsy, clouded, alert .

orientation

time, place, person.

concentration

serial 7s, successive 7s, reciting.

memory

recent, remote, immediate.

fund of knowledge

current events, people.

abstraction

proverbs, similarities, analogies.

judgment

test for normative response to an event.

insight

critical, automatic,retrospective.

Manner of approach to interview(er)

Q1    Defensive

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Easily offended, or feeling criticized, or difficulty in accepting observations.

Q1    Combative

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Aggressive, or threatening, loud, agitated, could be frightening, ....

Q1    Tentative, Tenuous, Evasive

1 2 3 4 5

Frequent use of 'yes-but', 'if', 'maybe', 'perhaps', 'probably', 'sometimes', 'not always', 'it depends' .

Q1    Intellectual

1 2 3 4 5

Serious, Cerebral, Dispassionate, Unemotional, Failing to read between the lines, ...

Q1    Guarded - Vigilant

1 2 3 4 5

Pauses before answering, deliberates, reads between the lines, Non-Verbal Cues of guardedness, humorless, ...

Q1    Cooperative, collaborative, agreeable

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Q1    Trusting, confiding, revealing

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Q1    Haughty, pompous, arrogant.

1 2 3 4 5

Q1    Over-elaborate, given to exaggerations and/or hyperbole, embelishments.

1 2 3 4 5

Over-elaborate, given to exaggerations and/or hyperbole, embelishments.

Q1    Apathetic, indifferent, distant, aloof or oblivious.

1 2 3 4 5