In Conducting a Mental Status Exam, Content of Thought Has

question 19

Multiple Choice

In conducting a mental status exam, content of thought has to do with which of the following:

• A) Delusions, distortions of body image, hallucinations, obsessions, suicidal or homicidal ideation, and so forth
• B) Circumstantially, coherence, flight of ideas, logical thinking, intact as opposed to loose associations, organization, and tangentiality
• C) Dress, hygiene, body posture, tics, significant nonverbals, and manner of speech
• D) Feeling state that is constricted or full, appropriate or inappropriate to content, labile, flat, blunted, exaggerated, and so forth
• E) Two of the above

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Definitions:

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