Module 1

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Addiction

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Physical and/or psychological dependence on alcohol or drugs

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Acting out

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Expressing certain kinds of unconscious conflicts through behavior

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Affect

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The feeling tone or mood specific to an idea or issue

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Affective disorder

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A psychotic reaction in which the predominant feature is a disturbance in emotional feeling tone usually depression or elation

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Aggression

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A feeling or action that maybe self assertive forceful or hostile

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Agitation

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Just psycho motor expression of uncomfortable feelings (pacing,picking at the skin, restless movement of the hands are legs)

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Ambivalence

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Simultaneous conflicting feelings or attitudes toward a person or object

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Amnesia

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A dissociative experience in which the person’s recollection is lost or split off from conscious recall. May be functional or organic.

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Anxiety

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A state of uneasiness, apprehension, or tension caused by a nonspecific danger or threat. There is the subjective sense of impending doom accompanied by autonomic symptoms of rapid pulse, increase respiration and perspiration

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Apathy

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A state of indifference or lack of motivation

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Associative looseness

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The association between 1 thought or feeling and another is disconnected or Unconnected. Thoughts do not flow.

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Compulsion confabulation

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And act resulting from an uncontrollable impulse the filling in of memory gaps with made up stories; the patient believes the stories to be true

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Conflict

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A clash largely determined by unconscious forces between two opposing emotional forces. Conflict is basic in psychic life and fundamental in the etiology of psychological disorders.

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Conversion reaction

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And unconscious process by which an emotional conflict is expressed as a physical symptom, I.E., the psychogenic paralysis of an arm prevents it’s being used in an aggressive manner.

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Crisis

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A crucial situation which then causes a disequilibrium to an individual’s lifestyle

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Decompensation

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Personality disorganization under excess stress

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Delusion

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A false fixed belief that cannot be changed by logic

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Emotion

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A subjective feeling, such as fear, anger, joy, love, surprise

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Empathy

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The capacity for participation in or a vicarious experience of another’s feelings, volitions, or ideas

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Flights of ideas

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The rapid succession of ideas that are not necessarily related to each other

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Hallucination

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An imaginary sense perception

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Ideas of reference

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The incorrect interpretation of incidents as having direct reference to the self

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Illusion

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The misinterpretation of an actual sensory experience

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Labile

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Rapidly shifting emotions

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Milieu

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The people and factors within an environment with which a person interacts

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Mutism

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The inability to speak

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Obsession

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Persistent and uncontrollable thoughts

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Psychosis

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A severe disability involving coping mechanisms of the individual that is commonly characterized by a loss of contact with reality, distortion of perception, regressive behavior, and abnormal mental content

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Resistance

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A psych term used to imply an individual’s reluctance to bring repressed thoughts or impulses into awareness

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Schizophrenia

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a psychiatric syndrome characterized by a thinking it disorder, withdrawal from reality, regressive behavior, poor communication and severely impaired interpersonal relations

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Schizoid

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Used as an adjective to describe traits of introversion, withdrawal and aloofness

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Therapeutic

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Serving to cure or heal

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Dorothea Dix

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Community mental health pioneer. Mission to get good health care for MH patients. Helped start 30 hospitals. Moral cure

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Adolf Meyer

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1930’s psychiatrist who said we need better care. Stop warehousing people.

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Clifford Beers

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Started the child guidance movement, clinics, & school programs. self identified MH consumer wrote “The mind that found itself”

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President JFK

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Backed the community mental health act of 1973. People could then be treated at clinics w/in their community. Done as part of the civil rights movement

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Thomas Szasz

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Psychiatrist; author of “The Myth of Mental Illness”; believed the mentally ill are not sick and it is not a disease

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Rosenhan’s study of 1973

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Graduate students claim to be hearing voices admitted to psych hospitals. Staff only saw illness normal behavior was found to be abnormal. How many patients were wrongly admitted.

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Barbara Dohrenwend

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President of APA believed society should be proactive in addressing MI; look for red flags; opposed the medical mode

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Erik Erickson

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Used psychosocial approach; worked with veterans Studied WWI battle fatigue. Believed identity (or lack of) was part of the problem. Also worked with Native American Tribes.

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Benjamin Rush

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Hospital Administrator @ Philadelphia hospital for the insane AKA bayberry. Patients regularly chained and restrained.

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Philippe Pinel

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France 1800’s unchained patients in a Paris hospital

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William Tuke

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Quaker who Started a private asylum called York retreat which followed a moral treatment approach

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John Watson

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Father of behaviorism; believed behavior can be changed