Misc. Flashcards
Single Subject Design
Research where the subject serves as his/her own control, rather
than using another individual/group. Ex. A medical social worker wants to see if texts improve
medical compliance to treatment in diabetic patients. They start with a baseline measure of
compliance, text clients daily for a month while measuring compliance, then stop texting and
measure compliance again.
Quasi-Experimental Design
Commonly used in social science research - this type of
research is typically identified as being void of randomization of either subjects or treatment and/or
the lack of comparison groups. Yet, there is still an attempt to isolate the treatment. As an
overarching goal, the body of quasi-experimental research attempts to answer questions such as:
“Does a treatment or intervention have an impact?” and “What is the relationship between program
practices and outcomes?”
Wernicke’s Encephalopathy
caused by thiamine deficiency often associated with
alcoholism; symptoms include confusion, loss of muscle coordination (leg tremors),
and vision changes (abnormal eye movements, double vision, eyelid drooping).
Korsakoff’s Syndrome
retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia and confabulation (attempts to compensate for memory loss by fabricating memories); hallucinations
existential theory
focus on the acceptance of the client fundamental autonomy, freedom of choice
IQ levels
profound - below 20-25
moderate - 35-55
mild - 50-70
mulitfamily therapy
provides multiple families with mutual understanding and allows them to exchange ideas,role play and enact psydramas
specifiers
catatonia- marked psychomotor disturbances involving extreme inactivity or excessive motor activity
atypical -mood reactivity, hypersomnia, increase in appetite, feelings of rejection or heavy feelings in arms or legs
melancholic- loss of pleasure in almost all activities or lack of reactivity to usually pleasAnt stimuli, decrease in appetite and weight loss
