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Chapter 19

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Activities of daily living (ADL)   The basic activities a person usually accomplishes during a normal day, such as eating, dressing, and bathing.  
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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.  
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Behavior   How a person functions or acts in response to his or her environment.  
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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.  
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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.  
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Functional disorder   A disorder in which there is no known physiologic reason for the abnormal functioning of an organ or organ system.  
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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.  
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Organic Brain Syndrome   Temporary or permanent dysfunction of the brain, caused by a disturbance in the physical or physiologic functioning of brain tissue.  
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Psychogenic   A symptom or illness that is caused by mental factors as opposed to physical ones.  
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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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