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Med Surg Final
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Affect | mood or tone |
| Akathisia | Regular restless movements or pacing |
| Anhedonia | Inability to experience pleasure |
| Apraxia | Loss of purposeful movement |
| Associative looseness | disturbance of thinking in which ideas shift from one subject to another in unrelated themes |
| binging | ingestion of large quantities of food in a short period of time |
| blackouts | a person that drinks heavily appears to function normally but l ater is unable to recall events |
| Catatonia | state of psychological immobilization that can revert to extreme agitation |
| Clang association | meaningless rhyming of words |
| Co-morbidity | Presence of one or more disorders in addition to a primary disease or disorder |
| compulsion | repetitive purposeless ritualistic behavior performed in accordance with specific rules or routine |
| concrete thinking | thinking characterized by immediate experience rather than abstract thought |
| confabulation | a compensatory mechanism for memory loss. Fillin in memory gaps with imaginary stories |
| counter transferrence | experience where therapist transfers his or her feelings for significant others onto the patient |
| crisis | a conflict that cannot be readily resolved |
| defense mechanisms | mental strategies used to help cope with areas of conflict |
| deinstitutionalization | discharge of a large number of psychiatric clients from inpatient treatment centers |
| delusion | a fixed false belief held to be true even with evidence to the contrary |
| denial | unconscious attempt to escape unpleasant realities by denying their existance |
| desensitization | gradual systematic exposure of the client to feared situations |
| dissociation | disturbance in the integrated organization of memory identity percevption or consciousness |
| echolalia | repitive by one person of what another is saying |
| echopraxia | meaningless imitation of movement |
| tardive diskenesia | involuntary irreversable tonic muscular spasms of the tongue fingers toes neck and pelvis that results from long term use of antipsychotic meds |
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