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| Actions that mistreat, injure, or threaten the self or others; drug abuse inflicts injury on the self; child abuse inflicts injury on children |
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| Process of reorganizing information already known in order to include new information; adjusting to reality and unfamiliar experiences |
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| Role conferred because of special skills or attributes of an individual; sometimes referred to as assumed role |
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| Discharging tension by responding to the present situation as if it were a previous situations when the response was initiated |
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| Response to change within the organism or outside its boundaries; adaptation requires mobilization of the organism in addition to processes of assimilation |
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| Dependency, physical or psychological, on alcohol or other substances |
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| Modification of various aspects of the self in order to cope with the demands of daily life |
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| An emotional state or feeling |
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| Actions performed in order to gratify the need to excel, achieve, compete, and/or separate from the group; aggressive actions may be positive or negative in nature |
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| Extreme restlessness and excitability |
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| Extreme fear of open spaces |
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| Sensations of restlessness and unease; often caused by reactions to psychotropic medication |
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| Loss or lack of relationships with others |
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| Concern for the well-being of others without regard for personal gain |
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| Degenerative neurological disorder characterized by loss of mental powers, disorientation, and motor impairment; thought to be congenital in nature |
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| Conflict resulting from simultaneous feelings of being attracted and repelled by the same object, action, or goal; often expressed in approach-avoidance behavior |
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| Loss of memory for events within a certain period of time; may be temporary or permanent |
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| Drawing of amniotic fluid from the amniotic sac of a pregnant woman in order to examine fetal cells for chromosomal abnormalities; Down's syndrom, among other disorders, may be diagnosed in utero through this dianostic technique |
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| Loss of the mother or mother figure by the infant during the first year of life, often resulting in developmental deficits and/or indications of depression |
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| Inability to experience pleasure or joy |
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| Absence or loss of meaningful relationships with other individuals or groups; absence or loss of social norms and values |
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| Refusal of individuals to eat because of psychological factors such as distoreted body image or control issues; may result in extreme emaciation and even death |
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| Vague sense of apprehension or dread originating within the individual; may be communicated to other persons through the process of empathy; may not necessarily be generated by identifiable external stimuli |
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| Lack of feeling, intererst, or initiative |
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| Role conferred because of status, age, gender, or positive and not because of attribution or qualities within the control of the individual |
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| Ability to express one's needs, goals, or preferences appropriately and effectively in interpersonal transactions |
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| Process of integrating new information or experience into what is already known and understood |
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| Deficient muscular coordination cuasing difficulty in walking |
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| Preoccupation with private, self-determined thoughts or actions without concern for reality or objective standards shared with others |
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| Disorder of childhood characterized by language deficits and inability to relate to others |
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| Part of the nervous system that supplies internal oranis; is subdivided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems |
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| Self-determination and self-reliance; the sense of being individual and independent |
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| Form of behavior modification in which a painful stimulus is linked to a pleasurable stimulus, thuse causing dislike (aversion) for the stimulus previously associated with pleasure |
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| Therapeutic modality utlizing stimulus and response conditioning in order to alter dysfunctional patterns of behavior |
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| Use of electrical devices to monitor autonomic physiological processes in order to produce relaxation and reduce tension |
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| Organic substances that serve as transmitters or monitors of neural impulses |
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| Disturbance of mood and affect in which at least one manic episode can be identified; may or may not be characterized by depressive episodes |
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| Individual who is sexually attracted to both males and females |
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| Difficulty in communicating because channels of thought are obstructed or interrupted for emotional reasons |
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| Internalized impressions and attitudes of an individual regarding one's physical self |
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| Attachment of a parent to an infant; any process in which individuals make a mutual commitment |
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| Short-term therapy that usually focuses on the restoration of functioing and providing emotional support |
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| Reaction to stressful occupational conditions in which workers feel exhausted and depleted; often expressed behaviorally through anger, apathy, depression, or detachment |
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| Alternating episodes of overeating (binge eating) followed by deliberate, self-induced vomiting |
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| Injury or trauma to the genitals; in broader terms, a threat to the masulinity or femininity of individuals |
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| State of muscular rigidity and inflexibility, often accompanied by symptoms such as tremor, excitability, or stuper |
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| Psychoanalytic term used to describe a bond or attachment |
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| Neural structures of brain and spinal cord |
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| COmmunication pattern in which tangential, trivial details are given; usually the purpose is to lower the anxiety of the narrator |
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| COmmunication pattern in which tangential, trivial details are given; usually the purpose is to lower the anxiety of the narrator |
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| Extreme fear of being confined in a small space |
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| Process in which professionals, paraprofessionals, and clients themselves attempt to improve the quality of care and protect the rights of persons receiving care |
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| the act, process, or result of knowing, learning, and understanding |
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| Conditions of attraction among group memebers, and between individual members and the group as a whole |
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| Sexual intercourse between persons of opposite sex |
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| Deep stupor or loss of consciousness |
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| Hosptialization that was not sought by the client but was arranged by family members, legal or medical officers when the client was considered a clear danger to the self or others |
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| An irrational, repetitive act that must be performed in order to control rising anxiety |
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| Trait or disoerder in one person that occurs in others, usually family members |
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| Use of literal statements instead of abstract or symbolic forms of communication |
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| Filling in lost memory gaps with manufactured details |
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| Responsibility of professionals to disclose no information abotu clients except to participating colleagues, and the only with the knowledge and consent of the client |
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| Discomfort (anxiety) experienced by persons torn between a wish for something and fear of the consequences if the wish is gratified; a clash between opposing intrapersonal or interpersonal forces |
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| Communication designed to help others engage in reflection and self-examination of their motives and behaviors |
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| Agreement between verbal and non-verbal levels of communication |
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| process of ensuring that the message sent is the same as the message received in order to correct distortion or misinterpretation |
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| A collaboration model in which persons with special expertise deal indirectly with clients by working with persons directly responsible for care |
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| Setting and circumstances in which an event or transaction occurred |
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| Agreement between client and profession concerning therapeutic goals and regimen; usually developed collaboratively |
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| Transformation of anxiety-producing thoughts and feelings into somatic symptoms; previously termed a hysterical reactions |
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| Efforts directed toward managing and solving various problems, events, and stressors |
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| Establishing of relationships between variables; correlation shows connections but not cause-and-effect relationships between variables |
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| Activation in care providers of inappropriate feeings for the client, usually orginating in the previous expreience of the care provider |
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| Concealed, masked, not openly manifest |
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| Periods of vulnerability and/or disorganization that have the potential for growth and maturation |
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| Therapuetic invtervention designed to restore functioning at or above precrisis levels, usually time limited in nature |
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| Developmental milestone that involves the acquisition and mastery of specific behaviors and competence |
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| Sum of the customs, habits, and traditions of a particular ethnic or social group |
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| Sum of information collected form which to make inferences, develop hypotheses, assess needs, and evaluation outcomes |
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| Facility offering a therapuetic program for clients who attend during the day and return home at hnight; a form of partial hospitalization |
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| Disorganization of the personality or ego during times periods of overwhelming stress |
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| Unconcious, intrapsychi processes used to reduce anxiety and emotional ocnflict |
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| Return to community living or personals previously hospitalized for long periods; a movement emphasizing community aftercare rather that institutional care for clients |
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| A sense that a new occurrence or experience has transpired in the earlier life of the individual; a sense of having experienced new events previously |
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| Legally prohbited actions committed by a juvenile or minor |
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| Impairment of mental processes to the extent of confusion and disorientation, usually caused by a specific agent or stressor |
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| Withdrawal state of alcoholism characterized by tremors, hallucincations, and occasionally convulsions; a reaction to abstinence or reduced ingestion of alcohol |
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| Absence, impairment, or reduction of cognitive and intellectual abilities |
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| Outmoded term once applied to schizophrenia |
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| Refusal to acknowledge the reality of certain events, thereby protecting the individual from the unwelcome recognition of such events |
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| Tendency to rely on others |
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| Feelings of unreality and disconnection from the self occurring as a result of personality disorganization |
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| Psychological state characterized by dejection, lowered self-esteem, hopelessness, helplessness, indecision, and rumination |
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| Reduction of intense reactions to variou sstimuli by repeatedly exposing the individual to the stimuli in milder forms |
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| Elimination of a toxic agent from the body via natural physiological processes or with the aid of medical and nursing measures |
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| Noncompliance with norms established and upheld by the group |
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| Ability to differentiate adn respond differently to two or more stimuli |
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| Interactional process characterized by withdrawal; often the withdrawal is reciprocal, as in the case of interactions between the elderly and society or in family situations where members maintain distance between each other |
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| COnfusion and impaired ability to identify time, place, and person |
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| Transfer of emotion or behaviors activated by one person or event to an unrelated person or event; substituting one target of emoitons or behavior for another target |
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| Protective mechanism that protects the self from awareness of anxiety-producing stimuli; amnesia, somnambulism, fugue, and multiperonality are examples of dissociative reactions |
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| Communication in which a positive command is followed by a negative command; the recipient cannot obey both commands and therefore feels confused and trapped |
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| Form of mental retardation associated with chromosomal abnormalities |
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| Psychoanalytic term descrining instinctual urges and impulses arising from biological and psychological needs; the id component of personality is the repository of instinctual drives |
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| Physological and/or psychological dependence on a chemical substance |
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| Synthesis of a client's traits, values, behaviors, and conflicts for the purpose of explaining, understanding, and helping the client |
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| Interactive forces within the individual, usually unconscious, that are manifested in thoughts, feelings, behavior, and symptomatology |
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| Painful sexual intercourse; occurs in both sexes but more often women |
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| Muscle spasms of the face, head, neck, and back; usually an acute side effect of antipsychotic medications |
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| Psychoanalytic term descrining the aspect of the personality that mediates between the demands of the id and those of the superego; the aspect of the personality that deals with reality |
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| Thoughts, feelings, impulses, acts that are unacceptable to the ego and therefore produce anxiety; ego alien is an alternative term |
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| The internalized image of the self as one would like to be |
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| Thoughts, feelings, impulses, acts that are unacceptable to the ego and therefore do not produce anxiety |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
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| Therapuetic seizures, tonic and clonic in nature, produced by means of electric current applied to the temoporal areas under controlled conditions |
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| Electroencephalogram (EEG) |
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| Graphic record of the electrical activity of the brain obtained by means of electrodes applied to areas of the head |
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| ABility to understand the feelings of others and respond sensitively to their perceptions of experience |
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| Maladaptive pattern of overinvolvment and intensity seen in families |
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| Study of the distribution of physical and mental disorders in a given population |
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| Tendency of events, conditions, symptoms, and disorders to abate and recur intermittently |
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| What disorder is Lithium most frequently used to treat? |
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| What is Ritalin commonly used to treat? |
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| What are zoloft and prozac commonly used to treat? |
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| Human development literature has related borderline personality disorder to what theorist? |
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| Mahler - The development of borderline personality disorder has been linked in the developmental literature with a failure to negotiate the Rapproachement Phase of Mahler's Separation-Individuation Phase |
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| Which of Frued's developmental stages is associated with cigarette smoking? |
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| Oral - he would say that the oral needs of these individuals were no adequately met |
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| Agoraphobia is associated with what? |
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| Acrophobia is associated with? |
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| What is Ophidiophobia associated with? |
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