Clinical Terms Part II Flashcards
Identify the Clinical Term indicated by the phrase or sentence
The identification of coexistent diseases within an individual; This is most commonly associates with a problem with drugs or alcohol and another psychiatric disorder.
Dual Diagnosis
Pertaining to the biological aspects of an individual; This is most commonly used to distinguish between physiological and psychosocial problems.
Organic
The defense mechanism that protects the personality from anxiety or guilt by disavowing or ignoring unacceptable thoughts, emotions or wishes.
Denial
The unethical practice of assuming a second role with the client in addition to professional helper, such as friend, business associate, family member, or sex partner.
Duel Relationship
A state of reliance on other people or things for existence or support, nurturance, protections, security or shelter.
Dependency
A legal document ordering an individual to appear in court at a certain time; Failure to comply may result in some penalty.
Subpoena
A tendency to develop a trait or attribute under the right circumstance.
Predisposition
A reciprocal process between the individual and the environment, often involving changing the environment or being changed by it.
Adaptation
A strong repetitive urge to act in a certain way; frequently a means of relieving anxiety.
Compulsion
Effective behavior an individual uses in responding to or avoiding sources of stress.
Coping Skills
Compulsive stealing; The theft is often motivated by emotional release, excitement, r gratification and not by the need for the object or it’s material value.
Kleptomania
Abrupt shifts and excessive variation in an individual’s expression of affect.
Labile Affect
A pattern of behavior frequently seen in victims of spouse abuse and child abuse, in which the individual responds passively to risks of harm.
Learned Helplessness.
A compelling wish or drive that is out of an individuals immediate awareness but that influences him or her to act in a way that would seem contrary to his or her rational objectives.
Unconscious Motivation
The individual’s capacity for logical thinking, intelligence, perceptiveness, and self-control over impulses to achieve immediate gratification.
Ego Strengths
The premise and understanding between therapist and client that the information revealed by the client will not be divulged to others without expressed permission; Courts often honor this unless there is a risk of public danger or threat to the public good.
Privilege
Traits of personality, thought, behavior, and values that are incorporated by the individual who considers them acceptable and consistent with his or her overall “true” self.
Ego Syntonic
A set of conscious or unconscious emotional reactions to a client experienced by a therapist; these feelings usually originate in the therapist’s own developmental conflicts or past.
Countertransference
A medication-induced movement disorder that includes uncontrollable physical movements, especially in the face, lips, and tongue, and sometimes repetitive movements of the head, hands, and feet.
Tardive Dyskinesia
In behavior modification, the strengthen of a response through the removal of adverse stimuli.
Negative Reinforcement
The act of perceiving, understanding, experiencing, and responding to the emotional state and ideas of another person.
Empathy
In behavior modification, the elimination or weakening of a conditioned response by discounting the reinforcement after the response occurs.
Extinction
A concept that refers to emotional reactions that are assigned to current relationship but originated in earlier experiences (often the feelings a client has toward a therapist).
Transference
In behavior modification, a procedure that strengthens the tendency of a response to recur.
Reinforcement
The granting of permission by the client to the therapist or agency to use specific interventions, including diagnosis, treatment, follow up, and research; This must be based on full disclosure of the facts needed to make the decision, including risks, benefits, and alternatives.
Informed Consent
A penalty imposed for misbehavior in behavior modification; the presentation of an unpleasant of undesired event following the behavior.
Punishment
A defense mechanism in which unacceptable aspects of one’s own personality are rejected or attributed to another person or entity.
Projection
Strengthening a desired behavior or response by presenting a desired stimulus contingent on performance of the response.
Positive Reinforcement
A phenomenon in groups in which members settle on a particular person to target or blame, though that person is often innocent; prevents trur group cohesion and distracts from the actual group.
Scapegoating
An administrative and educational process used to help someone further develop and refine his or her skills, enhance staff morale, and provide quality assurance for clients.
Supervision
The process of helping individuals, families, groups, and communities increase their strengths and develop influence toward improving their circumstances.
Empowerment
Traits of personality, behavior, thought, or orientation considered to be unacceptable, repugnant, or inconsistent with the individual’s perceptions-conscious or unconscious- of himself or herself.
Ego Dystonic
The process in which one individual who feels pressured distressed, or powerless in relating to another individual brings into the relationship a third person to act as an ally or a distracter.
Triangulation
A relationship pattern in which role boundaries between individuals are so vague or diffuse that there is little opportunity for independent functioning.
Enmeshment
