Misconstrue trivial events and attach personal significance to them (believing
that others, who are discussing the next meal, are talking about them)
2. Persecution
Answer
Feel singled out for harm by others (being hunted down by the FBI)
3. Grandeur
Answer
Believe that they are all powerful and important, like a god
4. Somatic delusions
Answer
Believe that their body is changing in an unusual way (growing a third arm, rotting from theinside)
5. Jealousy
Answer
May feel that their spouse is sexually involved with another individual
,6. Being controlled
Answer
Believe that a force outside their body controls them
7. Thought broadcasting
Answer
Believes that their thoughts are heard by others
8. Thought insertion
Answer
Believe that others' thoughts are being inserted into their mind
9. Thought withdrawal
Answer
Believes that their thoughts have been removed from their mind by an
outside agency
10. Religiosity
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Is obsessed with religious beliefs
11. Flight of ideas
Answer
, Associative loose thoughts. The client repeats sentences, each sentence relates to another topic
12. Neologisms
Answer
Made up words that have meaning only to the client
13. Echolalia
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Repeats words spoken to them
14. Clang association
Answer
Meaningless rhyming words , often forceful , such as , OX
, fox, box, and lox.
15. Word salad
Answer
Words jumbled together with little meaning to the client
16. Tangentiality
Answer
Train of thought wanders off in another direction, does not return to initial topic
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