Social Work Vocabulary

Question 1

Accident prone

Answer 1

special susceptibility due to psychological causes.

Question 2

Addiction

Answer 2

a descriptive name for a type of psychiatric illness (character disorder) characterized by excessive psychological and/or physiologic dependence upon the intake of some substance, as, for example, alcohol or an opiate.

Question 3

Adjustment

Answer 3

the series of Technics or processes by which the individual strives to meet the continuous changes that take place within himself and his environment. synonym: adaptation.

Question 4

Affect

Answer 4

Generalized feeling tone. (Usually considered to be more persistent than emotion and less so than mood).

Question 5

Affective

Answer 5

pertaining to affect

Question 6

Affective psychosis

Answer 6

a psychosis characterized by an extreme alteration in mood in the direction of mania or of depression.

Question 7

Aggression (Aggressive Drive)

Answer 7

A term used in various ways; in the usq.ge of psychiatry, an instinct-like-force, much influenced by early experience, motivating the individual to destructive activity.

Question 8

AIM

Answer 8

Intention or purpose; in psychiatric literature the term is used chiefly in the discussion of instincts; the aim of an instinctual drive may be defined as an action on the part of the individual that involves the object of the drive and results in gratification. Thus, the aim of the instinctual drive, hunger, is eating.

Question 9

Aim in schizophrenia

Answer 9

The experiencing of contradictory strivings or emotions toward an object or situation. In extreme form, characteristic of schizophrenia.

Question 10

Ambivalence

Answer 10

The experiencing of contradictory strivings or emotions toward an object of situation. In extreme form, characteristic of schizophrenia.

Question 11

Anal Character Personality

Answer 11

1. in psychoanalysis a pattern of behavior in an adult that originates in the anal eroticism of infancy and is characterized by such traits as excessive orderliness, miserliness, and obstinacy.

Question 12

Anal character personality

Answer 12

2. a type of character (personality) disorder in which many of the individual’s conflicts and defenses remain those appropriate to the muscle-training period, usually characterized by such traits as parsimony, rigidity, and pedantry.

Question 13

Parsimony

Answer 13

extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources. cheapness, miserliness, meanness, parsimoniousness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, closeness, penny-pinching;

Question 14

Pedantry

Answer 14

: a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details