Psychiatric Nursing

A disturbance in perception in which there is a misinterpretation of an actual external stimulus.

• Illusion

• Hallucination

• Delusion

• Schizophrenia

Pathological coining of new words.

• Word salad

• Circumstanstiality

• Neologism

• Flight of Ideas

During a client interview, you noticed that the client shifts from one topic to another in a somewhat related way

• Looseness of association

• Flight of Ideas

• Neologism

• Circumstantiality

It is an exaggerated belief of identity.

• Nihilistic

• Grandeur

• Persecution

• Self-depreciation

It is a false belief to body function.

• Grandeur

• Self-depreciation

• Somatic

• Nihilistic

A disturbance in motor or activity of clients in which pathologically the client imitates posture or action of others.

• Waxy flexibility

• Echopraxia

• Echolalia

• Akinesia

A feeling of not having been to a place which one has visited.

• Deja vu

• Jamais vu

• Dementia

• Amnesia

It is the presence of two opposing feelings at the same time.

• Aphasia

• Agnosia

• Ambivalence

• Apraxia

It is the inability to recognize and interpret sensory stimuli.

• Apraxia

• Ambivalence

• Agnosia

• Akathisia

Filling in memory gaps

• Amnesia

• Confabulation

• Deja vu

• Jamais vu