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javeds

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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

Question 2

A mental status exam includes an assessment of all but which of the following?
 
  a. Appearance and behavior
  b. Emotional state
  c. Physical state
  d. Thought components
  e. Cognitive functioning



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Answer to Question 1

.A

Answer to Question 2

.C



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