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1
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Excessive use of substance that differs from
societal norms

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abuse

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Emotional range attached to ideas outwardly
manifested

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affect

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slow or dull

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blunt

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absence or near absence of
any signs of affective expression

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flat

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incongruent
between the emotional feeling

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inappropriate

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unstable mood with rapid change

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labile

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shows full range of
emotional expression

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broad

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shows one type of expression

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restricted

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To excitement with severe motor
restlessness

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agitate

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Motor restlessness generally expressed as
the inability to sit still

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akathisia

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Absence of movement

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akinesia

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inability to speak

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alogia

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opposing feelings/emotions (love and hate)

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ambivalence

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feeling of no joy

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anhedonia

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Feeling of apprehension or tension (fear of
the unknown)

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anxiety

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Lack of feeling, interest, concern or emotion

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apathy

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Disorganized thinking that jumps from one
idea to another with no evident relation
between the thoughts (“cannot see the sky..
oh my love…justasking…mm maybe
tomorrow”)

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associative looseness

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A mood disorder characterized by one
episode of manic behavior with or without a
history of depression

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Bipolar
disorder/
manic-
depressive

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19
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Client eventually answers the question being
asked, but only after giving an excessive
amount of unnecessary details
Nurse: Where are you going for the
weekend?
Patient: “I feel like visiting my sister…I just
remembered she ask me a favor…a picnic
maybe, in the beach, in hours it gets
crowded. That is why I don’t prefer in that
place. So, I decided instead to go to my
brothers place a nice and big house but now
I prefer to stay in my own house.”)

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circumstantiality

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rhyming of words

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clang association

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bewildered, unclear

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confused

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Repeating words socially unacceptable

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coprolalia

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Unconscious filling of gaps in memory or
untrue experiences that a person
believes but have no basis in reality.
Detailed fantasy.

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confabulation

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Mood swings of hypomania and
depression

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cyclothymia

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A state where a drug user take or
increase dose of a drug in order to
prevent the onset of symptoms or
withdrawal

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dependence

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A state in which a person is unable to
suppress urges or statement in which is
socially unacceptable

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disinhibited

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Disturbances in orientation of time,
place or person

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disorientation

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28
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A 2 years chronic depressed mood
disturbances

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dysthymia

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29
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Fixed fixed false beliefs that have no
basis in reality

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delusion

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30
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somebody is going to killl me

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paranoid

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31
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false belief that
one is powerful (I am the most
handsome male in my class)

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grandiose

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32
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The devil told me
to do this

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religious

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33
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i might get sick

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somatic

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34
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I hurt my
neighbor. The lady I saw in the
television told me to do it.

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ideas of reference

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35
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A mood disorder characterized by
sadness, despair, apathy, and
discouragement

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depression

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36
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Avoidance of disagreeable realities,
refused to recognize

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denial

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37
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Gradual exposure to stress-provoking
stimuli

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desensitization

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38
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Abnormal involuntary skeletal
movement usually producing a jerky
motion

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dyskinesia

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Rigidity of muscle that controls posture,
gait, and ocular movement

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dystonia

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40
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repitition of words heard

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echolalia

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41
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Repetitive, meaningless movement or
imitating others

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echopraxia

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42
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Does of electric shock administered to
clients with Manic Depressive Disorders

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ECT

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43
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A subjective, exaggerated feeling of
well-being characterized by confidence,
elation and assurance

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euphoria

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44
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A drug-
induced parkinsonism.

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extra pyramidal s/e

45
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Display of body parts to attract others

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exhibitionism

46
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A response to objective threat/external.
Fear of the known.

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fear

47
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Adoring something which serves as a
substitute of the original love object

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fetishism

48
Q

Flow of verbalization jumps from
unrelated one topic to another. There is
a connection between some topics but it
is difficulty to identify.
(What is today? Might not be taking a
bath… I will be cooking at home… the
dog kept on barking… there are flowers
around me… the food for sure will be
delicious)

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flight of ideas

49
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exposure to fear

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flooding

50
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Manner of progression in walking

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gait

51
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False sensory perceotion without
external stimuli

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hallucination

52
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seeing thing that are not there

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visual

53
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hearing voices which is not
present

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auditory

54
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smelling things that does nor
exist

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olfactory

55
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feeling touched but absence of
stimuli

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tactile

56
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experiencing taste in the
absence of stimuli

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gustatory

57
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Incapable and powerless

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helplessness

58
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despairing, no hope

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hopelessness

59
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alert to danger

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hypervigilant

60
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Elevated state that is less intense than
full mania

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hypomania

61
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Increased and prolonged sleeping

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hypersomnia

62
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inability to sleep or disrupted sleep
patterns

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insomnia

63
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Misinterpretation of the real sensory
stimulus

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illusion

64
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Energy usually associated with sexual
instinct

A

libido

65
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Establishing a structured environment
with clear ground rules

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limit setting

66
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Patients reasoning and judgment
appears to be normal for a brief period

A

lucid intervals

67
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Deliberately pretends an illness or
disability

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malingering

68
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A mood disorder characterized by
irritability, elation, and hyperactivity

A

mania

69
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Gaining sexual pleasure from being
physically hurt

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masochism

70
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Refusal to speak

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mutism

71
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Motiveless resistance to all instruction

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negativism

72
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Eyes rolled back in a locked position

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oculogyric crisis

73
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Recurrent disturbing thoughts which is
difficult to push out of the mind

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obsession

74
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Repetitive behavior that a person is
obliged to do to decrease anxiety

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compulsion

75
Q

Inventing new words which I meaningful
only to the person.

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neologism

76
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Extreme suspiciousness of others and
their action

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paranoid

77
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Ingestion of non-edible food

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pica

78
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Exaggerated fear of non-dangerous
object or situation

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phobia

79
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Occurs 30 days or less in the postpartum
period

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postpartum depression

80
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Slow speech and body movement

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psychomotor retardation

81
Q

Mental illness during which the patients
lose contact with reality and
demonstrate bizarre behavior

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psychosis

82
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the mind

A

psyche

83
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Relieving anxiety by an individual to feel
better

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primary gain

84
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Relieving anxiety with the help of others

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secondary gain

85
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Resistance to change the topic, verbally
repeating of a sentence

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perseveration

86
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engrossed

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preoccupied

87
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Preoccupied of or with religious idea or
content

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religiosity

88
Q

It is the capacity of the individual to
move forward despite psychosocial
diversity or genetic vulnerability

A

resilience

89
Q

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

A

SSRI

90
Q

Gaining sexual pleasure by inflicting pain
to the partner

A

sadism

91
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Adjective referring to the body

A

somatic

92
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It is when a person sleepwalks

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somnambulism

93
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Persistent repetition of senseless act or
words

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stereotype

94
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A self-inflicted death

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suicide

95
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Excessive drooling of saliva

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sialorrhea

96
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Reduction of saliva

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xerostamia

97
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An irreversible neurologic disorder

A

tardive dyskinesia

98
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tca

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tricyclic antidepressant

99
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To increase amount of substance to
achieve the same effects

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tolerance

100
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Unconscious emotional reaction to a
current situation that is actually based
on previous experience

A

transference

101
Q

A reaction based on the nurses past
experience

A

countertransference

102
Q

Sudden cessation of thought in the
middle of a sentence, unable to
continue the train of thought

A

thought blocking

103
Q

A delusional belief that occurs can hear
or know what the client is thinking

A

thought broadcasting

104
Q

A delusional belief that others can
control a person’s thoughts against his
will

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thought control

105
Q

A delusional belief that others have the
ability to put thoughts in a person’s
mind against his will

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thought insertion

106
Q

A technique to stop a client thinking of
unwelcoming thoughts

A

thought stopping

107
Q

Involuntary, recurrent muscular spasm.
Motor and vocal tics.

A

tic

108
Q

Combining of words or phrases that do
not have connection and no sense

A

word salad

109
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having no value

A

worthlessness

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