| Scores (Weights) |
Categories and Scoring Symbols |
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I. Interpersonal references (including fauna and flora). |
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A. To thoughts,
feelings or reported actions of avoidance, leaving, deserting, spurning, not
understanding of others.
|
| 0 |
1. Self
avoiding others.
|
| +1 |
2. Others avoiding self.
|
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B. To unfriendly,
hostile, destructive thoughts, feelings, or actions.
|
| +1 |
1.
Self unfriendly to others.
|
| +1/3 |
2.
Others unfriendly to self.
|
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C. To congenial
and constructive thoughts, feelings, or actions.
|
| -2 |
1.
Others helping, being friendly toward others.
|
| -2 |
2.
Self helping, being friendly toward others.
|
| -2 |
3.
Others helping, being friendly towards self.
|
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D. To others
(including fauna, flora, things and places).
|
| 0 |
1. Bad,
dangerous, low value or worth, strange, ill, malfunctioning.
|
| -1 |
2.
Intact, satisfied, healthy, well.
|
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II. Intrapersonal references. |
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A. To
disorientation-orientation, past, present, or future. (Do not include all
references to time, place, or person, but only those in which it is reasonably
clear the subject is trying to orient himself or is expressing disorientation
with respect to these. Also, do not score more than one item per clause under
this category.)
|
| +2 |
1.
Indicating disorientation for time, place, or person or other distortion of
reality.
|
| 0 |
2.
Indicating orientation in time, place, person.
|
| 0 |
3.
Indicating attempts to identify time, place, or person without clearly
revealing orientation or disorientation.
|
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B. To self.
|
| 0 |
1a.
Physical illness, malfunctioning (references to illness or symptoms due
primarily to cellular or tissue damage).
|
| +1 |
1b.
Psychological malfunctioning (references to illness or symptoms due primarily
to emotions or psychological reactions not secondary to cellular or
tissue damage.
|
| 0 |
1c.
Malfunctioning of indeterminate origin (references to illness or symptoms not
definitely attributable either to emotions or cellular damage).
|
| -2 |
2.
Getting better.
|
| -1 |
3a.
Intact, satisfied, healthy, well; definite positive affect or valence
indicated.
|
| -1 |
3b.
Intact, satisfied, healthy, well; flat, factual, or neutral attitudes
expressed.
|
| +½ |
4. Not
being prepared or able to produce, perform, act, not knowing, not sure.
|
| +½ |
5. To
being controlled, feeling controlled, wanting control, asking for control or
permission, being obliged or having to do, think, or experience something.
|
| +3 |
C. Denial of
feelings, attitudes, or mental state of the self.
|
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D. To food.
|
| 0 |
1. Bad,
dangerous, unpleasant or otherwise negative; interferences or delays in eating;
too much and wish to have less; too little and wish to have more.
|
| 0 |
2. Good
or neutral.
|
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E. To weather.
|
| -1 |
1. Bad,
dangerous, unpleasant or otherwise negative (not sunny, not clear,
uncomfortable, etc.).
|
| -1 |
2.
Good, pleasant or neutral.
|
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F. To sleep.
|
| 0 |
1. Bad,
dangerous, unpleasant or otherwise negative; too much, too little.
|
| 0 |
2.
Good, pleasant or neutral.
|
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III. Miscellaneous. |
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A. Signs of
disorganization.
|
| +1 |
1.
Remarks or words that are not understandable or inaudible.
|
| 0 |
2.
Incomplete sentences, clauses, phrases; blocking.
|
| +2 |
3.
Obviously erroneous or fallacious remarks or conclusions; illogical or bizarre
statements.
|
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B. Repetition of
ideas in sequence.
|
| 0 |
1.
Words separated only by a word (excluding instances due to grammatical and
syntactical convention, where words are repeated, e.g., "as far as,"
"by and by," and so forth. Also, excluding instances where such words
as "I" and "the" are separated by a word).
|
| +1 |
2.
Phrases, clauses (separated only by a phrase or clause).
|
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IV. References to the
interviewer. |
| +1 |
A. Questions
directed to the interviewer.
|
| +½ |
B. Other references
to the interviewer.
|
| +1 |
V. Religious and biblical
references. |
