Chapter 4 Human Issues Flashcards
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.
Mental illness
A firmly held but false belief that is retained despite logical proof to the contrary.
Delusion
A lifelong pattern of maladaptive behavior that interferes with daily living.
Personality disorder
A physiological condition that causes difficulty in producing sound or understanding language, including reading and writing.
Speech impairment
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.
Baker act
The process that brings a physically or psychologically dependent person to a substance-free state.
Detoxification
A functional limitation that affects one or more of a person’s limbs.
Mobility impairments
The federal civil rights law that protects individuals with disabilities.
Americans with disabilities
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.
Crisis
A law that provides substance abysses with access to emergency services and temporary detention for evaluation and treatment.
Marchman Act
A hearing loss of such severity that the individual must rely on visual communication, such as writing, gestures, sign language, and lip-reading.
Deafness
The loss of visual acuity in which objects look dim or out of focus.
Partial sight
A physical, mental, or psychological disorder affecting one or more body system.
Impairment
The physical resistance to effects of a substance that causes a user to need a larger amount of it to experience the desired effect.
Tolerance
A state in which the body becomes accustomed to a substance and needs that substance to function normally.
Physical dependence
A physical and/or psychological dependence on a substance.
Addiction
A decision by an individual to voluntarily seek psychiatric evaluation for symptoms that may be due to a mental illness.
Voluntary examination
The physical and mental symptoms experienced by an addicted individual who stops using the addictive substance.
Withdrawal
A form of visual communication sometimes used by persons who lose their hearing after language development.
Lip reading
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.
Mental retardation
Continued substance use due to an uncontrollable physical or psychological craving for that substance.
Substance dependence
The legal, illegal, therapeutic, or recreational intake of a substance that alters physical or mental function.
Substance use
A functional loss of vision.
Blindness
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.
Substance abuse
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.
Substantial limitation
Caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working.
Major life activities
A mental condition caused by repeated use of a drug that causes the user to crave the substance.
Psychological dependence
A person who can both receive and express information and interpret it effectively, accurately, and impartially.
Sign language interpreter
Any degree of hearing loss.
Hearing impairment
A loss of hearing, but not to the extent that an individual must rely on visual communication.
Hard of hearing
The accidental or intentional use of a dangerously large amount of a substance.
Overdose
Any sensory perceptions in which a person can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel something that is not there.
Hallucination
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.
Dementia
A developmental disability that occurs in early childhood and continues throughout adulthood which may result in difficulties with learning, communication, and social interaction.
Autism
