Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

Juicio de realidad conservado

English translation:

preserved reality testing

Added to glossary by lorenab23
Jul 7, 2017 13:58
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Spanish term

Juicio de realidad conservado

Spanish to English Medical Medical (general) Psychiatry
This appears in a medical report for a patient presenting with various mental health issues. Translation at the request of the patient.

Would the translation simply be "preserved sense of reality". I have researched the terms in Spanish and English, but I am unsure of the results and I would like to know whether there is a specific specialist English term in psychiatry.

Juicio de realidad: Capacidad para reconocer la verdadera relacion de las ideas y extraer conclusiones acertadas de una experiencia
http://dic.idiomamedico.net/juicio_de_realidad

I could not find an official medical definition for "sense of reality".

Many thanks!
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Jul 21, 2017 05:12: lorenab23 Created KOG entry

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preserved reality testing

or reality testing is preserved

Yes "preserved" is the word for "conservado"
For the purpose of this study, module B of SCID was applied for the screening of psychotic symptoms: hallucinations and delusions. Afterward, subjects were divided into three groups: P1, subjects without psychotic symptoms; P2, subjects with subthreshold psychotic symptoms (present but transient symptoms with preserved reality testing); P3, subjects with psychotic symptoms. Groups did not differ in age, educational level, or marital status.
http://militarymedicine.amsus.org/doi/10.7205/MILMED.172.3.2...

Nine of the included PTSD-SP patients were directly described as “appearing with preserved reality testing” or with a description that makes it probable that the patients had preserved reality testing;
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12...

Although reality testing is preserved and confirms that the loved object no longer
exists, in the internal process of mourning the aggrieved person initially is unable to
withdraw attachment from the lost object
http://www.griefcounselor.org/articles/prof-article-beyond-d...

Usually, its duration is brief, measured in seconds or minutes, and reality testing is preserved providing an intrusion rather than delusion.
http://jdc.jefferson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1302&co...

There was a depersonalization syndrome (criterion A) with preserved reality testing
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1525505005...




Peer comment(s):

neutral Robert Forstag : These references al look to be within the context of psycoanalytic therapy whereas the context of the posted query looks to an evaluation of a patient at a mental health clinic (or psychiatric unit of hospital).
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agree jude dabo : Fits!
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agree Robert Carter : "In contact with reality" seems too vague for a patient assessment. This is appropriate in terms of both accuracy and register, IMO.
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in contact with reality

Or:
"in touch with reality"

Over 100,000 Google hits for "in contact with reality" AND "psychiatry."

Another possibility here would be "adequate reality testing."
Peer comment(s):

agree Leda Roche : I do not think the word "test" applies in this context
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"Adequate reality testing" would probably be okay, but absolutely not simply "reality testing" (for reasons I explained in my comment on Dr. Faulkner's suggestion). Thank you, Denise. :)
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Reality testing

This is one of the functions tested in psychoanalysis. The way it is written there, before a semicolon as if part of a list of other components, I would use the technical term "reality testing".

SaludoZ!
Peer comment(s):

neutral Robert Forstag : Yes, "reality testing" is a function to be tested, but here the posted term is "juicio de realidad conservado," which would have to be "adequate/proper/good reality testing" (as I had indicated in my previous answer).
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agree jude dabo : or observations
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