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Chapter 20
Psychiatry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| addict | one dependent on substance |
| aggressiveness | abnormal forcefulness toward others |
| agitation | abnormal restlessness |
| anorexia nervosa | eating disorder which person refuses to eat to sustain min weight |
| ambivalence | feeling conflicting emotions about person/issues |
| anxiety | abnormal worry |
| autism | mental disrder with morbid self absorption and difficulty percieving reality |
| bipolar disorder | drastic modd swings over period of time |
| bulimia nervosa | eating disorder with extreme overeating followed by purging |
| catalepsy | trancelike state with holding one pose for long period of time |
| deliriousness | mental confusion physical cause caused by high fever; hallucinations |
| delusional | faving false beliefs resulting from disordered thinking |
| dementia | multiple cognitive effects |
| depression | disabling condition wit loss of interest and pelasure in all actvities |
| dissociative disorder | loss of ability to integrate memory, identity and other mental abilities with environment |
| manic | dangerously elevated mood |
| hypocondria | preoccupation iwht imagined illnesses in patients body |
| mental retardation | below ave intellectual functioning |
| neurosis | behaving condition usually involves anxity that patient can cope with and that does not rise to level of psychosis |
| obsessive compulsive disorder | condition with obsessive compulsive feelings |
| paranoia | extreme unofunded mistrust of others |
| phobia | irrational or obsessive fear of something |
| pica | eating disorder which compulisvely eats nonnutritive substance like clay or pain |
| post traumative stress disorder | extreme traumatic stress that occurs from truamatic incident or event |
| psychiatry | medical specialty concerned with diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders |
| psychology | pression that studies human behavior and treats mental disorders |
| psychotherapy | treatment of mental disorders with verbal and nonverbal communication |
| schizophrenia | condition with recurring psychosis with hallucinations |
| social worker | non medical professional who is trained as advocate for people |
| sociopathy | extrem callous disregard for others |
| somatoform disorders | mental disorders including physical symptoms that have psychological base |
| therapist | nonmedical professional trained in treatment of mental disorders |
| hypno | sleep |
| neuro | nerve |
| psycho psyche | mind, mental |
| schizo | split |
| mania | abnormal impulse toward |
| philia | craving for |
| phobia | abnormal fear of |
| phoria | feeling |
| aa | acholics anonymous |
| aamr | american association on mental retardation |
| add | attention defiit disorder |
| apa | american psychiatric association |
| dsm | diagnositc and statistical manual of mental disorders |
| dt | delirium tremens |
| ect | electroconvulsice therapy |
| eq | emotional quotioent |
| est | electroshock therapy |
| iq | intelligence quotient |
| mha | mental health association |
| namh | national association of mental health |
| narc | national association for ratarded children |
| nimh | national institute of mental health |
| ocd | obsessive compulsive disorder |
| ptsd | post traumatic stress disorder |
| tdm | therpeutic durg monitoring |
| behavior modification | substitution ofbeneficial behavior pattern for destructive behavior pattern |
| behavior therapy | includes use of behavior modification |
| biofeedback | method of measuring physical responses to emotional issues |
| electrshock therapy | passing of electric current through specific area of brain to change communication from that area to thought process |
| group therapy | talkwith members to discuss feeling to help others improve |
| hynosis | state of semi consiousness |
| play therapy | revealing feelings through play |
| psychoanalysis | attempts to have patients bring unconscious emothios to surface to deal with them |
| antianxiety agent | tranquilize |
| antidepressant | controls effects of clinical depression |
| antipsychotic agent | relieves agitationa dn some psychose |
| ataractic | tranquilizer |
| over dose | toxic dose of substance |
| psychopharmacology | deals with medications that affect the emotions |
| therapeutic drug monitoring | taking of regular blood or urine tests to track drug use or effectivenss of medication |
| tranquilizer | used to relieve anxiety |
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