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Mental Health Vocab
vocabulary having to do with mental health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alcoholism | Chronic and often progressive disease resulting when alcohol is used regularly and excessively |
| anti-anxiety agent | medication that lessens anxiety in mild to moderate states of emotional upset |
| antidepressant | medication that reverses depressive symptoms and produces feelings of well-being. |
| antipsychotic medication | medication that reduces excitement and controls hostile, aggressive behavior in schizophrenic patients. |
| anxiety disorder | Tension about an unidentified anger and fear relating to a specific cause. |
| attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder | disorder characterized by a habitual inability to pay attention for more than a minute or two. |
| bipolar disorder | manic-depressive illness; extreme and unpredictable mood swings from emotional highs (euphoria) to emotional lows (despair). |
| brief therapy | short-term therapy that focuses on a specific, observable problem with the goal of developing a skill to solve it. |
| cognitive therapy | therapy that focuses on helping a patient reconstruct faulty thinking instead of emotions. |
| communication disorder | disorder characterized by failure to use speech sounds correctly or slow speed development |
| delirium | condition characterized by a disturbance of consciousness and a change in cognition that develops over a short period of time. |
| dementia | condition characterized by multiple cognitive deficits that include impairment in memory |
| depressive disorder | mood disorder characterized by mild to severe symptoms affecting sleep, appetite, concentration, and interest in life; may be endogenous, situational or seasonal |
| detoxification | medically supervised treatment program to counteract or destroy toxic properties in the body. |
| disruptive behavior disorder | disorder characterized by behavior that violates the basic rights of others and includes negative, hostile, and age-inappropriate behaviors. |
| electro-convulsive therapy | therapeutic technique used for major depressive episodes that have been unresponsive to medications. |
| gender identity disorder | disorder characterized by persistent discomfort with one's gender. |
| impulse-control disorder | disorder characterized by the failure to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform an act that is harmful to the individual or to others. |
| intelligence test | test that quantifies intellectual processes and the corresponding brain function. |
| learning disorder | disorder found in children with normal health and intelligence but who have problems with the ability to learn. |
| mental disorder | clinically significant behavior associated with distress, disability, increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability or important loss of freedom. |
| mental health | a relative state of mind in which a healthy individual is able to cope with and adjust to the events of life in a way that maintains mental stability |
| mood disorder | disorder occurring when a prolonged emotion pervades an individual's entire mental life. |
| motor skills disorder | disorder characterized by motor coordination that is substantially below that expected for a person of a given age and intellectual level. |
| meuropsychological test | test that allows more distinct inferences to be made about neurological impairment and relationships between an impairment and intellectual, emotional, personality, and integrative functions. |
| obsessive-compulsive disorder | condition characterized by unrealistic thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions) in spite of the patient's awareness that they are inappropriate. |
| panic attack | normal physical reaction to a life-threatening situation although no such situation is present. |
| paraphilia | disorder characterized by recurrent, intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors that include unusual objects, activities, or situations. |
| personality disorder | disorder that may interfere with an individual's behavior and interactions with other individuals because of an inability to deal with the demands or the limitations of the world. |
| personality test | test that quantifies and/or describes personality structure and emotional functioning |
| pervasive development disorder | syndrome that begins in infancy and applies to a child who is unresponsive to other people, including its parents. |
| phobia | persistent, irrational fear triggered by a specific type of stimulus |
| post-traumatic stress disorder | anxiety disorder characterized by an acute emotional response to a traumatic event or situation involving severe emotional stress. |
| projective test | test that uses abstract or unstructured stimuli to determine underlying personality traits. |
| psychiatrist | medical doctor with several additional years of training in the methods of psychotherapy, neurology and pharmacology. |
| psychoanalysis | therapy that attempts to make patients aware of unconscious conflicts that are at the root of their illness. |
| psychologist | non-medical person with a doctorate in psychology. |
| psychotherapy | method used to treat mental illness using a variety of techniques. |
| schizophrenia | disorder characterized by withdrawal from reality into a fantasy world. |
| sexual dysfunction | disorder characterized by disturbance in sexual desire and in the psychophysiological changes that characterize the sexual response cycle resulting in marked distress and interpersonal difficulty. |
| sleep disorder | irregularities in the sleep cycle. |
| somatoform disorder | disorder that suggests a general medical condition, but where no general medical condition fully accounts for the physical symptoms. |
| substance-related disorder | disorder that results in a psychological and/or physical dependence on alcohol and drugs. |
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