BAP Brief Assessment Protocol - The Kasdaglis Model - Intake

Abstraction

Referring to the ability to think, decipher, and interpret proverbs, and/or spoken words, void of concrete, semantic, or literal interpretations. Able to understand proverbial ideas, humor, or theoretical constructs, and generally think in abstract and/or in conceptual fashion.

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Affect

Referring to the emotional intonation, and/or modulation of the facial expression that may be impaired, or of limited range as in being flat, constricted, blunted, inappropriate, or incongruent to thought and mood.

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Affection

The ability, as well as the desire to be affectionate, warm, and appropriately expressive, void of constriction.

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Affiliation

Referring to the innate capacity, as well as desire, and needed relatedness , for in-depth social interactions that go beyond a circle of 'relatives'.

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Aggression

Frequent engagements in verbal arguments, threats, power struggles, combativeness, reactivity, impulse discontrol.

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Agitation

Characterized by excessive verbal, motor, thought and/or behavioral states, such as irritability, pacing, lability of mood, clenching of teeth, or fists, frequency of urination, aggression, ... .

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Alertness

Aside from normative states, we may observe hypo-alertness, attention and focusing impairments, hyper-alertness, hyper-vigilance,...

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Alexithymia

The absence of the ability to integrate, or incorporate, a wide range of 'feeling' words, or expressions, excepting the most primitive of affects such as anger, fear, frustration and despondency.

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Aloofness - Obliviousness

A marked presence of general indifference, or remoteness, or withdrawal..

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Ambivalence

An ever-present state of conflicting ideas, attitudes, and emotions towards one's self and/or others that impede motivation, action, and decisiveness often leading to depersonalization, and depilating dysphoria and anxiety.

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Anergia

Usually a symptom of dysthymia, or depression, characterized by a lack of energy even for small tasks that are subjectively perceived as requiring more effort than realistically needed..

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Anhedonia

The quality of affect may often be described as over-expressive, emotional, and whether aggressive or not, invariably dramatic, or overstated.

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Anxiety

A state dominated by excessive experiences of fear , intrapsychic agitation, intrusive thoughts, and feelings of morbid anticipation. ... If highly remarkable, it usually includes involuntary physiological reactions such as frequency of urination, shying respirations, tachycardia, sweating, and muscle weakness. It is usually episodic, and transitory. The individual may fear collapse, fainting, dying, or going crazy.

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Apathy

A marked presence of dispassion, or detachment, or unconcern, or indifference, towards one's self, or to the feelings, or suffering of others.

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Approach-Demeanor

It is wide-ranging, or over-imposing, and often times contemptuous.

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Appetite

Referring to a general state of need and desire to eat.

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Appropriateness

Referring to the ability to be socially, or behaviorally, appropriate, ... maintain limits of decorum .

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Aprosodia / Prosody

Referring to the emotional quality of speech modulation, intonation, or the ability for understanding non-verbal language, subtleties, or nuances. Prosody may be expressive, receptive, or both.

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Arrogance

Haughty, pompous, arrogant, lacking in humility.

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Ansonia

A suffix relating to sleep disorder conditions such as Initial, mid, or terminal insomnia.

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Associations

Referring to a process or ability to maintain a cohesive and coherent train of thought void of loss of associations from one thought to another resulting in going off in tangents, being circoumstantial, or engaging in word-salads, or introducing neologisms.

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Ataxia

Lack of constancy of ideas, and/or psychic, or physical restlessness.. Psycho-neurologically it may refer to a degenerative disease, or loss of power for voluntary movement.

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Autism

Referring to a proclivity towards social withdrawal, and fantasy rather than assimilating to, and integrating external reality, norms, ideas and behaviors.

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Dereistic Thinking

Thinking that is not goal directed, or reality based ... It is Egocentric and guided by internal wishes and desires regardless of external real-world factors. Examples may be found in superstitions, metaphysical, pseudoscience, etc... it maybe culturally normative, and not necessarily psychotic; e.g. histrionic.

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Forgiving

A proclivity and disposition for forgetting, forgiving, and not holding grudges.

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Haplessness

Referring to a general absence of happiness underscored with emptyness, worthlessness, resignation.

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Hopelessness

Referring to the loss, or absence of hope, underscored with morbid, or passive suicidal thoughts, or a world view dominated by pointlessness, anger, or disappointment.

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Jealousy

Demonstrations of excessive jealousy and possessiveness.

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Mood Lability

Frequent demonstrations of excessive lability of mood within a short period of minutes and usually not exceeding a couple of hours.

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Motor-behavior

Remarkable for hyper-kinesis, extra psychic Agitation, Excessive and unmitigated level of energy, Restlessness indicative of intrapsychic agitation.

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Pressure of speech

Speech-content is over-elaborate, often circumstantial, imposing, and its amplitude is significantly louder than normal at a highly remarkable rate (fast).

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Relatedness

There is a remarkable impairment in relatedness as indicated by failure to observe boundaries, appropriateness, etiquettes, or protocols, or to demonstrate automatic insight and sensitivity into the effect their behavior has upon others.

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