Nursing care of patients with needs interferences related to thought disorders

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Nursing care of patients with needs interferences
related to thought disorders
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• 1.Definition of thought disorders
• 2. Types of thought disorders
• 3. Symptoms of thought disorders
• 4. Causes/associated factors

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Definition

• is a term used to describe a pattern of
  disordered language use that is presumed to
  reflect disordered thinking. It is usually
  considered a symptom of psychotic mental illness
  although occasionally appears in other
  conditions. It is also known as knight's move
  thinking referring to the nonlinear way a knight
  moves in chess.

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Types of thought disorders

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• I. DISORDERS OF STREAM OF THOUGHT
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• II. Disorders OF FORM OF Thought
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• 3.  Perseveration

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Symptoms of thought disorders

• I. DISORDERS OF STREAM OF THOUGHT
• - Pressure of thought subjective experience and
  objective
• - Poverty of thought.
• - Thought blocking

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Symptoms of thought disorders

• II. Disorders OF FORM OF Thought
• 1. Flight of Ideas 1.clang association
• 2. rhyming,3. punning, 4. responding to
  distracting cues in the environment.

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Symptoms of thought disorders

• 2. Loosening of associations - a loss of the
  normal structure of thinking.
• - Knight's move (derailment)
• - word salad
• - verbigeration (verbal stereotypy)
• - alogia (illogicality)
• - agrammatism
• - fusion (bringing together heterogeneous
  elements)
• - neologisms
• - circumstantiality
• - overinclusiveness

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Causes/associated factors

• delirium due to medical conditions (such as
  encephalitis, inflammation of the brain)
• Alzheimer's disease
• cancer
• endocrine disorders
• kidney failure
• closed head injuries

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Causes/associated factors

• other medical conditions
• sleep deprivation
• intoxication or long-term substance abuse
• steroid overuse or toxicity
• poisoning from substances such as lead, mercury,
  aluminum or arsenic
• electrolyte imbalance

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