Chapter 4 Human Issues

Question 0

An impairment of the mental or emotional processes that exercises conscious control of actions or of the ability to perceive or understand reality that substantially interferes with a person’s ability to meet the ordinary demands of living.

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Mental illness

Question 1

A firmly held but false belief that is retained despite logical proof to the contrary.

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Delusion

Question 2

A lifelong pattern of maladaptive behavior that interferes with daily living.

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Personality disorder

Question 3

A physiological condition that causes difficulty in producing sound or understanding language, including reading and writing.

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Speech impairment

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A law that provides access for mentally ill persons to emergency services and temporary detention for evaluation and voluntary or involuntary short-term community inpatient treatment.

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Baker act

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The process that brings a physically or psychologically dependent person to a substance-free state.

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Detoxification

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A functional limitation that affects one or more of a person’s limbs.

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Mobility impairments

Question 7

The federal civil rights law that protects individuals with disabilities.

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Americans with disabilities

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An event that significantly alters or threatens to alter a person’s life or a situation, usually in a negative way; a crucial period in which a significant charge seems inevitable.

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Crisis

Question 9

A law that provides substance abysses with access to emergency services and temporary detention for evaluation and treatment.

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Marchman Act

Question 10

A hearing loss of such severity that the individual must rely on visual communication, such as writing, gestures, sign language, and lip-reading.

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Deafness

Question 11

The loss of visual acuity in which objects look dim or out of focus.

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Partial sight

Question 12

A physical, mental, or psychological disorder affecting one or more body system.

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Impairment

Question 13

The physical resistance to effects of a substance that causes a user to need a larger amount of it to experience the desired effect.

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Tolerance

Question 14

A state in which the body becomes accustomed to a substance and needs that substance to function normally.

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Physical dependence

Question 15

A physical and/or psychological dependence on a substance.

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Addiction

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A decision by an individual to voluntarily seek psychiatric evaluation for symptoms that may be due to a mental illness.

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Voluntary examination

Question 17

The physical and mental symptoms experienced by an addicted individual who stops using the addictive substance.

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Withdrawal

Question 18

A form of visual communication sometimes used by persons who lose their hearing after language development.

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Lip reading

Question 19

A diagnosis of a person with significantly sub average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior, which occurs prior to age 18.

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Mental retardation

Question 20

Continued substance use due to an uncontrollable physical or psychological craving for that substance.

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Substance dependence

Question 21

The legal, illegal, therapeutic, or recreational intake of a substance that alters physical or mental function.

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Substance use

Question 22

A functional loss of vision.

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Blindness

Question 23

The continued use of a substance for non-medical reasons despite the knowledge that the substance causes adverse effects on an individual’s social life, occupational life, and psychological or physical health.

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Substance abuse

Question 24

A situation in which major life activities are restricted in the manner, condition, or duration in which they are performed in comparison with most people.

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Substantial limitation

Question 25

Caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working.

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Major life activities

Question 26

A mental condition caused by repeated use of a drug that causes the user to crave the substance.

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Psychological dependence

Question 27

A person who can both receive and express information and interpret it effectively, accurately, and impartially.

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Sign language interpreter

Question 28

Any degree of hearing loss.

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Hearing impairment

Question 29

A loss of hearing, but not to the extent that an individual must rely on visual communication.

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Hard of hearing

Question 30

The accidental or intentional use of a dangerously large amount of a substance.

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Overdose

Question 31

Any sensory perceptions in which a person can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel something that is not there.

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Hallucination

Question 32

An intellectual deterioration or an organic, progressive mental disorder characterized by a loss of memory, the impairment of judgement and abstract thinking, and changes in personality.

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Dementia

Question 33

A developmental disability that occurs in early childhood and continues throughout adulthood which may result in difficulties with learning, communication, and social interaction.

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Autism