Chapter 15- Mental/ behavioral health Flashcards
term- Psychologists
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meaning- Psychologists work with the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders. Most psychologists will have a doctoral degree (PhD or PsyD).
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term- Psychiatrists
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meaning- Psychiatrists are medical doctors who specialize in the treatment of mental health disorders. Their discipline is psychiatry.
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term- akathisia
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meaning- Inability to remain calm, still, and free of anxiety.
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term- amnesia
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meaning- Inability to remember either isolated parts of the past or one’s entire past; may be caused by brain damage or severe emotional trauma.
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term- anhedonia
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meaning- Absence of the ability to experience either pleasure or joy, even in the face of causative events.
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term- catatonia
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meaning- Paralysis or immobility from psychological or emotional rather than physical causes.
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term- confabulation
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meaning- Effort to conceal a gap in memory by fabricating detailed, often believable stories. Associated with alcohol abuse.
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term- defense mechanism
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meaning- Unconscious mechanism for psychological coping, adjustment, or self-preservation in the face of stress or a threat. Examples include denial of an unpleasant situation or condition and projection of intolerable aspects onto another individual.
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term- delirium
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meaning- Condition of confused, unfocused, irrational agitation. In mental disorders, agitation and confusion may also be accompanied by a more intense disorientation, incoherence, or fear, and illusions, hallucinations, and delusions.
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term- delusion
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meaning- Persistent belief in a demonstrable untruth or a provable inaccurate perception despite clear evidence to the contrary.
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term- dementia
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meaning- Mental disorder in which the individual experiences a progressive loss of memory, personality alterations, confusion, loss of touch with reality, and stupor (seeming unawareness of, and disconnection with, one’s surroundings).
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term- echolalia
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meaning- Repetition of words or phrases spoken by others.
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term- hallucination
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meaning- Any unreal sensory perception that occurs with no external cause.
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term-illusion
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meaning-Inaccurate sensory perception based on a real stimulus; examples include mirages and interpreting music or wind as voices.
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term-libido
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meaning-Normal psychological impulse drive associated with sensuality, expressions of desire, or creativity. Abnormality occurs only when such drives are excessively heightened or depressed.
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