Assessment of Abnormal Behavior
Assessment of Abnormal Behavior
Assessment of Abnormal Behavior
Consciousness
Emotion
Motor behavior
Thinking
Speech
Perception
Memory
Intelligence
Insight
1. Consciousness
State of awareness
Disturbances of consciousness
Impairment in perception and sensorium
Most often associated with brain pathology
Some disturbances of consciousness
Disorientation - disturbance of orientation in time,
place, or person
Clouding of consciousness incomplete clear
mindedness with disturbances in perception and
attitudes
Disturbances of attention
Inability to focus on certain portions of an experience
Inability to focus on one activity
Inability to concentrate
Some disturbances of attention
Distractibility attention is drawn to unimportant
external stimuli
Hypervigilance excessive inattention and focus on
all internal and external stimuli
Disturbances in suggestibility
2. Emotion
4. Thinking
I was grocery training; but, when I ride the grocery, I drive the food
everywhere on top of lollipops. - Magical thinking
Cain and Abel --- they were cannibals. You see brothers kill brothers
--- that is laudable. If you ask me, though, never name your son
Huxtibal. - Circumstantiality
A psychiatric patient who, although coherent, never gets to the point is
exhibiting.. - Loosening of association
5. Speech
6. Perception
Examples
7. Memory
8. Intelligence
9. Insight