A Nurse Uses the SAD PERSONS Scale to Interview a Patient

question 2

Multiple Choice

A nurse uses the SAD PERSONS scale to interview a patient. This tool provides data relevant to

• A) current stress level.
• B) mood disturbance.
• C) suicide potential.
• D) level of anxiety.

Identify cultural considerations in diagnosing personality disorders.

Describe social implications and individual impacts of personality disorders.

Know historical contributions to the understanding of personality disorders.

Understand the controversies and purposes surrounding the development and revision of the DSM.

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Definitions:

Brightness

The perception of how luminous an object appears, influenced by the object's illumination and the contrast with its surroundings.

Perceptual Set

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another, influenced by expectations, emotions, and experiences.

Gestalt Psychologist

A psychologist who studies how people perceive and experience objects as whole patterns or configurations, not just as simple sums of their parts.

Negative Afterimages

A visual phenomenon where an image continues to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased.