- Interpret in the context of the patient's social history (e.g. cultural beliefs)
- Appearance
- Unkempt clothing
- Poor grooming
- Bizarre dress
- Behavior and Psychomotor Disorder
- Bizarre and inappropriate behavior
- Agitation,
- Social isolation or withdrawal
- Deterioration in functioning
- Lack of initiative and motivation
- Identity disturbances
-
Catatonic stupor
- Lack or reduction in spontaneous movement
- Stereotyped behavior (repetition)
- Negativism (uncooperative)
- Impulsive unpredictable behavior
- Anhedonia
- Somatic complaints
- Emotional withdrawal
- Poor rapport
- Passive, apathetic or avolitional
- Anergia (lack of persistence at work or school)
- Speech
- Word Salads
- Echolalia
- Perseveration
- Mutism
- Neologisms
- Lack of spontaneity and conversation flow
- Alogia (marked poverty of speech or content of speech)
- Mood
- Anxiety
- Anger
- Fearfulness
- Depression
- Dysphoria
- Affect
- Blunted
- Flat
- Inappropriate
- Auditory or command Hallucinations
- Depersonalization
- Derealization
- Disorganized
- Illogical
- Blocking
- Loosening of associations
- Circumstantiality
- Tangentiality
- Flight of ideas
- Verbigeration
- Stereotyped thinking
- Impaired judgment
- Acts on Delusions
- Obey command Hallucinations
- Cognition
- Impaired
- Attentional Impairment
- Difficulty in abstract thinking
- Premorbid
- Withdrawn
- Eccentric
- Passive
- Impulsive
- Schizotypal
- Schizoid
- (2000) DSM IV, APA, p. 297-343
- Freedman (2003) N Engl J Med 349:1738-49 [PubMed]
- Schultz (2007) Am Fam Physician 75:1821-9 [PubMed]