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PC MH Vocabulary
Mental Health terms and common Adj.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Iatrogenic | adjective used to describe a medical disorder, illness, or injury caused in the process of medical treatment. |
| Malingering | exaggerate or feign illness in order to escape duty or work or seek drugs/treatment. |
| Psychomotor deficit/retardation | slowing down or hampering of your mental or physical activities. You typically see this in the form of slow thinking or slow body movements. Typical of Major Depression |
| encephalopathy | disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition |
| psychopathy | mental disorder especially when marked by egocentric and antisocial activity, a lack of remorse for one's actions, an absence of empathy for others, and often criminal tendencies |
| Cyclic schizophrenia | acute psychotic illnesses that featured a limited duration and a recovery between recurrences. |
| psychophysiological | of or relating to physiological psychology combining or involving mental and bodily processes |
| BHRF | Behavioral Health Residential Facility |
| ACE | Adverse Childhood Experience |
| ASAM | American Society of Addiction Medicine |
| Elope | a patient who is incapable of adequately protecting himself, and who departs the health care facility unsupervised and undetected. Wandering—defined as occurring when patients aimlessly wander without appreciation of their personal safety. |
| BHRF | BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RESIDENTIAL FACILITY |
| DLA | Daily Living Assesment |
| DLS | Daily Living Skills |
| LOCUS | Level of Care Utilization System |
| LAI | Long Acting Injection |
| dx | Diagnosis |
| ASH | Arizona State Hospital |
| CAH | Command Auditory Hallucinations |
| COWS | Opioids/pills |
| tx | Treatment |
| RBHA | Regional Behavioral Health Authority |
| Tribal ALTCS | Tribal Arizona Long Term Care System |
| AMPM | AHCCCS MEDICAL POLICY MANUAL |
| ITDP | Inpatient Treatment and Discharge Plan |
| OHR | Office of Human Resources |
| AHCCCS QM/OHR portal | |
| maladroit | Lacking cleverness, blunt. |
| ASPD | Antisocial personality disorder |
| HPD | Historonic Personality Disorder |
| Affective Disorders | any of several psychological disorders characterized by abnormalities of emotional state and including especially major depressive disorder, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder -- called also affective disorder. |
| dysthymia | What is dysthymia? Dysthymia is a milder, but long-lasting form of depression. It's also called persistent depressive disorder. People with this condition may also have bouts of major depression at times. |
| Psychosis and Schizophrenia | Psychosis is a condition in which someone has lost touch with reality. Its two main symptoms are hallucinations and delusions. Psychosis can have several causes, such as mental health disorders, medical conditions, or substance use. Schizophrenia is a mental health disorder that includes periods of psychosis. People living with schizophrenia also have additional symptoms, such as negative and cognitive symptoms. |
| NIMH | National Institute of Mental Health |
| anhedonia | Anhedonia is the inability to feel pleasure. It's a common symptom of depression as well as other mental health disorders. Most people understand what pleasure feels like. They expect certain things in life to make them happy. |
| Psychomotor agitation (PMA) | Psychomotor agitation refers to a state of restlessness and anxiety that results in repetitive and unintentional movements. It is a common sign in people with bipolar disorder, which is a psychiatric condition characterized by fluctuating manic and depressive episodes. |
| Psychomotor retardation (PMR) | Psychomotor retardation is one of the main features of major depressive disorder (MDD) or, more simply, depression. Psychomotor retardation is the slowing down or hampering of your mental or physical activities. You typically see this in the form of slow thinking or slow body movements. |
| dysthymia | Dysthymia is a milder, but long-lasting form of depression. It's also called persistent depressive disorder. People with this condition may also have bouts of major depression at times. |
| hyperphagia | Polyphagia, also called hyperphagia, is the medical term for a feeling of extreme, insatiable hunger |
| Affective disorder | any of several psychological disorders characterized by abnormalities of emotional state and including especially major depressive disorder, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder -- called also affective disorder. |
| neuroticism | neuroticism means responding poorly to stress, interpreting ordinary situations as threatening, and experiencing minor frustrations is overwhelming. |
| CPTSD | CPTSD complex post traumatic Stress disorder is still not a diagnosis. OK, we cannot make that official diagnosis for billing purposes, however. A lot of people have started to use that just in in layman's terms and and so I want us to recognize. |
| DHS | Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are nationally-representative household surveys that provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition. |
| dissociative fugue | A dissociative fugue is a temporary state where a person has memory loss (amnesia) and ends up in an unexpected place. People with this symptom can't remember who they are or details about their past. Other names for this include a "fugue” or a “fugue state.” |
| TGNC | Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming |
| ACT | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy |
| DID | dissociative identitiy disorder (DID) |
| autogynephilia | (derived from Greek for 'love of oneself as a woman') is a term coined by Blanchard for "a male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female", intending for the term to refer to "the full gamut of erotically arousing cross-gender behaviors and fantasies". |
| Munchausen Syndrome | A very striking and serious form of self-injurious behavior that may occur in people with borderline disorder is Munchausen syndrome. People with this disorder hurt themselves intentionally, but in a way that looks like a bona fide medical disease. For example, they may place a drop of blood in their urine to make it appear they are bleeding from their urinary tract, During these episodes, the person receives a considerable amount of medical care and attention. |
| Munchausen by Proxy (Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another—Previously, Factitious Disorder by Proxy) | A particularly severe subtype of Munchausen syndrome is Munchausen by proxy. In this disorder, a parent or caregiver of a child, usually the mother, will repeatedly inflict a medical illness on the child and then seek medical care and attention for the child. In this way, the caregiver will also receive attention, support, caring, and sympathy from medical professionals. |
| MBRP | Mindfulness-based relapse prevention. |
| CENAPS | Center for Applied Sciences Model |
| OARS | Open ended questions Affirmations: comment on strength, effort, intention Reflective listening Summaries : pulling together the person's perspective on change. |
| DARN-C | Desire: Statements that express a preference for change Ability: Statements that express self-efficacy or confidence in one's ability to change. Reasons: Statements that give specific reasons for why change is desirable or beneficial. Need: Statements that express an urgent need or necessity for change. Commitment: Statements that indicate a commitment to change, often involving definitive language that implies a readiness to take action. |
| SMS | Specific: Goals should be clear and precise. Mesurable: Goals should be quantifiable to track progress. Small: Goals should be realistic and achievable within a short timeframe. |
| Spirt of MI | an underlying set of principles essential to MI: partnership, acceptance, compassion, and evocation PACE |
| CFT | Compassion focused therapy. |
| Four Cs model of behavioral addictions | 1. COMPULSIVE: behavior is compulsive 2. CONTROL: there is a loss of control over the behavior 3. CONSEQUENCES: There are negitive consequences 4. CRAVINGS: the behavior enduces cravings. |
| Components Model | 1. Salience 2. Relapse 3. Conflict 4. Withdrawal 5. Tolarence 6. Mood modification |
| PIOS | Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity |
| TAF | thought action fusion beliefs |
| Detriangulation | Detriangulation refers to the process of withdrawing from a family member or therapist, so as not to be drawn into alliances of one person against another. In general detriangulation refers to the process of shifting one's perspective or understanding of a situation from a narrow or limited view to a more inclusive or objective view. |
| ad litem | (especially of a guardian) appointed to act in a lawsuit on behalf of a child or other person who is not considered capable of representing themselves. |
| anhedonia | the inability to feel pleasure |
| MSJCC | Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies |
| True expermental design | Experimental designs that utilize both random assignment and comparison groups |
| Quasi-expermental | which a comparison group is used but no random assignment; |
| Preexperimental designs | In a preexperimental design, participants would be placed in both study skills and group counseling. |
| MPM | MULTI-PHASE MODEL Phase I: Mental Health Education Phase II: Group, Family, and Individual Psychotherapy Phase III: Cultural Empowerment Phase IV: Indigenous Healing Phase V: Social Justice and Human Rights |
| TTM | the transtheoretical model (TTM) of change. The TTM consists of five stages of change: 1.. .precontemplation, 2, contemplation, 3. preparation, 4. action, 5. maintenance |
| PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL CHANGE | Goto page 145 in Social Justice counseling The next step |
| Leadership styles (6) | Autocratic leadership Benevolent leadership Bureaucratic leadership Empowering leadership Servant leadership Transformative leadership |
| Characteristics of a Social Justice Leader | Genuineness Authentic collaborator Courageous risk taker Challenges systems Creative Motivator Humble, lacking ego Responsible A guide, not an expert Generates empowerment Understands self Understands and appreciates differences in others Able to use and understand research and data Model for others |
| PNS | the PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (PNS) |
| WOT | WINDOW OF TOLERANCE |
| PCT | Political Countertransference |
| TTM | Trans theoretical model: The TTM consists of five stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance |
| NCS | Nice Counselor Syndrome |