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CCC - Mental Health Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agnosia | loss of ability to recognize objects |
| Agoraphobia | fear of going out in public places |
| Alogia | tendency to speak very little and use brief and seemingly empty phrases |
| Anhedonia | inability to find enjoyment in daily activities |
| Anxiety | state where a person has strong feelings of worry or dread, where the source is nonspecific or unknown |
| Aphasia | difficulty or inability to recall words |
| Apraxia | loss of motor function |
| Autonomy | individual's right to self-determination and independence |
| Avolition | lack of motivation for work or other goal-oriented activities |
| Beneficence | belief that all treatments must be for the client's good |
| Compulsion | repetitive behavior or act, the goal of which is to precent or reduce anxiety or distress |
| Continuous Cycling | recurrent movement from mania to depression without an intervening normal period |
| Conversion Disorder | condition in which an individual exhibits physical symptoms that cannot be explained by any medical or neurological conditions |
| Cyclothymic Pattern | cycle of an individual's mood changing back and forth between hypomanic and melancholic states |
| Depression | state wherein an individual experiences a profound sadness |
| Dysthymia | condition of feeling sad or depressed, persistent state of sadness |
| Dystonia | sustained, involuntary muscle spasm |
| Ego | self, mediates actions and experiences anxiety, controls impulses of the id |
| Fixation | a preoccupation with the pleasures associated with a stage, even though advances beyong that stage |
| Hallucinations | hearing voices or seeing images of persons or things that others cannot see or hear |
| Hypomania | mild form of mania that last for at least 4 days |
| ICD | a comprehensive listing of clinical diagnoses, each associated with a unique code |
| Id | unconscious, most primitive part of the personality, goal is to minimize pain and maximize pleasure AKA pleasure priniciple |
| Identity Achievement | Mild form of mania that last for at least 4 days |
| Identity Diffusion | adolescent avoids making a full commitment to an adult identity and doesn't reach their potential |
| Mania | condition where the person has excessive energy, exhibits abnormal excitability, and has an exaggerated sense of well-being. |
| Manic Episode | Distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, lasting at least 1 week |
| Mental Health | ability to cope with et adjust to recurrent stresses of everyday living |
| Mental Illness | evidenced by a pattern of behaviors that are conspicuous, threatening, and disruptive of relationships or deviates from acceptable behaviors |
| Modeling | requires nursing assessment, requires empathy to understand the client's view of the current situation |
| Moratorium | individual delays making a decision about adult identity while exploring various alternatives during adolescence |
| Munchausen's by Proxy | form of child abuse marked by caregiver falsely giving reports of a child's illness that result in unnecessary medical investigations or treatments |
| Munchausen's Syndrome | another term for Factitious Disorder |
| Neologistic Word | invented word, often used by persons suffering from schizophrenia |
| Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome | disorder associated with sudden fever, rigidity, tachycardia, HTN, and ↓LOC |
| Neurotransmitter | a chemical messenger that permits the movement of ions and chemicals across synapses |
| NIMBY Syndrome | "not in my back yard", state support for homeless but don't want it in their neighborhoods |
| Obsession | recurrent thought, image, or impulse that is experienced as intrusive and inappropriate and that causes marked anxiety or distress |
| Orientation | nurse and patient meet, get to know each other, identify and clarify the pt's needs |
| Orientation Phase | 1st stage of relationship, establish trust, and outline goals and boundaries |
| Prevalence | number of persons in a population who are living with a diesease or disorder at any time; includes both new and old cases |
| Psychosis | the individual has lost the ability to recognize reality |
| Rapid Cycling | four or more episodes of mania in a year |
| Reactive depression | adjustment disorder with depressed mood |
| Referential Delusion | perception that common events refer specifically to the individual |
| Regression | when one reverts to the pleasures of an earlier stage during times of frustration, i.e. thumb sucking in children or comfort eating in adults |
| Repression | process in which painful memories, thoughts, or experiences are actively kept out of conscious awareness |
| Role-Modeling | developing an IPOC based on the client's worldview |
| Schizophrenia | mental disorder characterized by disordered thoughts, hallucinations, and delusions |
| Serotonergic Syndrome | drug reaction involving agitation, sweating, rigidity, fever, hyperreflexia, tachycardia, and hypotension |
| Stress | nonspecific response to body to any demand made on it |
| Superego | conscious, serves to delay the immediate impulse generated by the id and to bring reationality into consideration |
| Tardive Dyskinesia | neurological disorder characterized by involuntary movements, usually of the tongue and lips |
| Termination Phase | therapeutic relationship is terminated after the patient's needs have been met |
| Word Salad | Speech marked by a group of disconnected words |
| Working Phase | patient begins to respond selectively to those who can help meet the felt need, begins to experience and incresed sense of belonging as well as developing capability for problem solving alone and with others |
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