A Patient States,"Sometimes I Hear Voices When No One Else

question 5

Multiple Choice

A patient states,"Sometimes I hear voices when no one else is in the room telling me that people are plotting to hurt me." This patient is experiencing impairment of which criterion of mental health?

• A) Autonomy
• B) Integration
• C) Reality perception
• D) Environmental mastery

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Definitions:

Emotion

A complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought and behavior.

Affect

Encompasses the experience of feeling or emotion, which can influence thoughts and behaviors.

Mood

A feeling state that is not clearly linked to some event.

Arousal

A physiological reaction, including faster heartbeat and faster or heavier breathing, linked to most conscious emotions