Other Diagnostic Vocabulary Flashcards
Acculturation Difficulty
A problem adapting to or finding appropriate ways to adapt to a different culture or environment.
Affect
Behavior that expresses a subjectively experienced emotion.
Difference Between Affect & Mood
Affect is responsive to changing emotional states; mood is a pervasive and sustained emotion.
Anhedonia
The inability to experience pleasure.
Antisocial Behavior
Conduct indicating indifference to another person or property; criminal behavior, dishonesty, or abuse are examples.
Comorbidity
The simultaneous appearance of two or more illnesses. May reflect a causal relationship between the disorders.
Compensation
A defense mechanism operating unconsciously by which on attempts to make up for real or fancied deficiencies.
Compulsion
Repetitive ritualistic behaviors that aim to prevent or reduce distress.
Coping Mechanisms
Ways of adjusting to environmental stress without altering one’s goals or purposes; consciously or unconsciously.
Coprophagia
Eating of filth or feces.
Decompensation
The deterioration of existing defenses, leading to an exacerbation of pathological behavior.
Dissociation
The splitting of clusters of mental contents from conscious awareness; the separation of an idea from its emotional significance and affect.
Dysphoria
Unpleasant Mood
Echolalia
Parrot-like repetition of overheard words or fragments of speech. Tends to be repetitive and persistent, often uttered w/ a mocking, mumbling, or staccato intonation.
Fetishism
A paraphilia marked by distress over or acting on sexual urges involving the use of nonliving objects, such as underclothing, stockings, or boots.
Flashback (Post-/Hallucinogen Perception Disorder)
Re-experiencing, after ceasing the use of a hallucinogen, one or more perceptual experiences from the drug.
Flight of Ideas
An early, continuous flow of accelerated speech w/ abrupt changes from one topic to another.
Hallucination
A sensory perception in the absence of an actual external stimulus.
Hypomania
Abnormality of mood falling somewhere between normal euphoria and mania. Characterized by unrealistic optimism, pressure of speech and activity, and a decreased need for sleep.
Identity Crisis
A loos of the sense of sameness and historical continuity of one’s self and an inability to accept or adopt the role one perceives as being expected by society.
Labile
Rapidly shifting emotions; instability.
Mania
A mood disorder characterized by excessive elation, inflated self-esteem and grandiosity, hyperactivity, agitation, and accelerated thinking and speaking.
Manic Episode
A distinct period of time (usually lasting at least 1 week) of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood accompanied by such symptoms as inflated self-esteem or grandiosity, decreased need for sleep, over talkativeness, flight of ideas, racing thoughts, increased goal directed activity, etc.
Panic Attack
Period of intense fear or discomfort, including fearing that one is dying, going crazy, or losing control, that reaches a crescendo within 10 minutes.
Phobia
Fear cued by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation; exposure to which creates an immediate anxiety response or panic attack.
Systemic Desensitization
A behavior therapy used to modify behaviors associated w/ phobias. Involves the construction of a hierarchy of anxiety producing stimuli by the subject, followed by gradual presentation of the stimuli until they no longer produce anxiety.
Thought Disorder
A disturbance of speech, communication, or content of thought, such as delusions, flight of ideas, preservation, loosening of associations, etc.
Tic
An involuntary, sudden, rapid, and recurrent, nonrhythmic stereotyped motor movement or vocalization.
