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Behavioral Emerg
Chapter 19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Activities of daily living (ADL) | The basic activities a person usually accomplishes during a normal day, such as eating, dressing, and bathing. |
| Altered mental status | A change in the way a person thinks and behaves that may signal disease in the central nervous system or elsewhere in the body. |
| Behavior | How a person functions or acts in response to his or her environment. |
| Behavioral crisis | The point at which a person's reactions to events interfere with activities of daily living; this becomes a psychiatric emergency when it causes a major life interruption, such as attempted suicide. |
| Depression | A persistent mood of sadness, despair, and discouragement; may be a symptom of many different mental and physical disorders, or it may be a disorder of its own. |
| Functional disorder | A disorder in which there is no known physiologic reason for the abnormal functioning of an organ or organ system. |
| Mental disorder | An illness with psychological or behavior symptoms and or impairment in functioning caused by a social, psychological, genetic, physical, chemical, or biological disturbance. |
| Organic Brain Syndrome | Temporary or permanent dysfunction of the brain, caused by a disturbance in the physical or physiologic functioning of brain tissue. |
| Psychogenic | A symptom or illness that is caused by mental factors as opposed to physical ones. |
| Reflective listening | A technique used to gain insight into a patient's thinking, involving repeating, in the form of a question, what the patient has said. |
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