II. Exam
- Appearance
- Posture
- Clothing and grooming
- Old or young appearing
- Healthy or sickly appearing
- Angry, puzzled, frightened, anxious, contemptuous, apathetic
- Effeminate or masculine
- Behavior
- Mannerisms, gestures, twitches, picking, hand wringing
- Combative
- Psychomotor retardation
- Clumsy
- Attitude toward examiner
- Coperative or hostile
- Defensive, seductive, evasive, ingratiating
III. Interpretation
- Psychotic: Disheveled, odd, grimacing
- Schizophrenic: Stare or blank look
- Paranoid: Agitated or hostile
- Depressed: Psychomotor retardation or mute
- Histrionic: Seductive manner
- Restlessness is seen in anxiety, mania, drug or Alcohol Withdrawal
IV. References
- Zum, Swaminathan and Egan in Herbert (2014) EM:Rap 14(7): 11-13
- Tomb (1992) Psychiatry, 4th Ed, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, p. 6-11
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| Definition (CSP) | a mental position, feeling or emotion toward a fact or state. |
| Definition (MSH) | An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be. |
| Definition (PSY) | Conceptually broad term referring to a mental position or feeling toward certain ideas, facts, or persons. Use a more specific term if possible. |
| Concepts | Mental Process (T041) |
| MSH | D001290 |
| SnomedCT | 225464009 |
| English | Attitudes, Attitude, Outlook, attitude, attitudes, Attitude (observable entity) |
| Swedish | Attityder |
| Czech | postoj |
| Finnish | Asenne |
| Italian | Atteggiamenti, Atteggiamento |
| Russian | USTANOVKA, УСТАНОВКА |
| Japanese | 態度, 身構え |
| Croatian | STAV |
| Polish | Postawa |
| Norwegian | Holdning, Innstilling |
| Spanish | actitud (entidad observable), actitud, Actitud |
| French | Attitude, Attitudes |
| German | Einstellung (Psychologie), Einstellungen (Psychologie) |
| Dutch | Attitude, Houding, Instelling |
| Portuguese | Atitude |
Ontology: Personal appearance (C0233426)
| Concepts | Organism Attribute (T032) |
| SnomedCT | 43175008, 386548000 |
| English | Personal appearance, appearance, personal appearance, look, Appearance, Looks, Personal appearance, function (observable entity), Personal appearance, function, State of appearance, Looks, NOS, Personal appearance, NOS, State of appearance, NOS, Personal appearance (function) |
| Spanish | aspecto personal (entidad observable), aspecto personal (función), aspecto personal |
Ontology: Behavior observable (C1285660)
| Concepts | Behavior (T053) |
| SnomedCT | 363896009 |
| Spanish | característica observable de la conducta, entidad observable relacionada con la conducta (entidad observable), característica observable de la conducta (entidad observable), entidad observable relacionada con la conducta, conducta observable (entidad observable), conducta observable |
| English | Behavior observable (observable entity), Behavior observable, Behaviour observable |
