Mental/Psychological Flashcards
Trust vs Mistrust
Psychosocial crisis for infants
Autonomy vs shame and doubt
Psychosocial crisis for toddlers
Initiative vs guilt
Psychosocial crisis for pre schoolers
Industry vs inferiority
Psychosocial crisis for school age children
Identity vs role confusion
Psychosocial crisis for adolescents
Intimacy vs isolation
Psychosocial crisis for young adults
Generativity vs stagnation
Psychosocial crisis for middle adults
Ego integrity vs despair
Psychosocial crisis for older adults
ADHD
Chronic condition that typically begins in childhood but can impact individuals throughout life. More commonly diagnosed in boys.
Depression
Mood disorder caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Anxiety
Disorder that leads to extreme feeling of worry and fear to the point that the persons ability to function and respond to typical situations is inhibited.
PTSD
A condition resulting from a traumatic or terrifying event
Apathy
Indifference, lack of interest, feeling, concern or emotion.
Compensation
Balancing a failure or inadequacy with an accomplishment.
Conversion
Transformation of an anxiety into a physical symptom that has no cause.
Denial
Avoidance of unpleasant or anxiety provoking situations or ideas by rejecting them or ignoring their existence.
Displacement
Redirection of emotions away from the original subject or object onto another less threatening subject or object.
Dissociation
Disconnection of emotional importance from ideas or events and compartmentalizing those emotions in different parts of awareness.
Identification
Attribution of characteristics of someone else to oneself or the imitation of another.
Intellectualization
Analysis of a situation with facts not emotions
Introjection
Adoption of the thoughts or feelings of others
Physical avoidance
Keeping away from any person, place or object that evokes memories of something unpleasant.
Projection
Transference of a persons unpleasant ideas and emotions onto someone or something else.
Rationalization
Explanation that makes something negative or unacceptable seem justifiable or acceptable.