Terminologies Flashcards by Ian Sierra

Excessive use of substance that differs from
societal norms

abuse

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Emotional range attached to ideas outwardly
manifested

affect

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slow or dull

blunt

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absence or near absence of
any signs of affective expression

flat

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incongruent
between the emotional feeling

inappropriate

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unstable mood with rapid change

labile

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shows full range of
emotional expression

broad

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shows one type of expression

restricted

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To excitement with severe motor
restlessness

agitate

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Motor restlessness generally expressed as
the inability to sit still

akathisia

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Absence of movement

akinesia

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inability to speak

alogia

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opposing feelings/emotions (love and hate)

ambivalence

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feeling of no joy

anhedonia

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Feeling of apprehension or tension (fear of
the unknown)

anxiety

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Lack of feeling, interest, concern or emotion

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”)

associative looseness

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

Bipolar
disorder/
manic-
depressive

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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.”)

circumstantiality

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rhyming of words

clang association

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bewildered, unclear

confused

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Repeating words socially unacceptable

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.

confabulation

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Mood swings of hypomania and
depression

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

dependence

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

disinhibited

Disturbances in orientation of time, place or person

disorientation

A 2 years chronic depressed mood disturbances

dysthymia

Fixed fixed false beliefs that have no basis in reality

delusion

somebody is going to killl me

paranoid

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

grandiose

The devil told me to do this

religious

i might get sick

somatic

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

ideas of reference

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

depression

Avoidance of disagreeable realities, refused to recognize

denial

Gradual exposure to stress-provoking stimuli

desensitization

Abnormal involuntary skeletal movement usually producing a jerky motion

dyskinesia

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

dystonia

repitition of words heard

echolalia

Repetitive, meaningless movement or imitating others

echopraxia

Does of electric shock administered to clients with Manic Depressive Disorders

ECT

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

euphoria

A drug- induced parkinsonism.

extra pyramidal s/e

Display of body parts to attract others

exhibitionism

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

fear

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

fetishism

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)

flight of ideas

exposure to fear

flooding

Manner of progression in walking

gait

False sensory perceotion without external stimuli

hallucination

seeing thing that are not there

visual

hearing voices which is not present

auditory

smelling things that does nor exist

olfactory

feeling touched but absence of stimuli

tactile

experiencing taste in the absence of stimuli

gustatory

Incapable and powerless

helplessness

despairing, no hope

hopelessness

alert to danger

hypervigilant

Elevated state that is less intense than full mania

hypomania

Increased and prolonged sleeping

hypersomnia

inability to sleep or disrupted sleep patterns

insomnia

Misinterpretation of the real sensory stimulus

illusion

Energy usually associated with sexual instinct

libido

Establishing a structured environment with clear ground rules

limit setting

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

lucid intervals

Deliberately pretends an illness or disability

malingering

A mood disorder characterized by irritability, elation, and hyperactivity

mania

Gaining sexual pleasure from being physically hurt

masochism

Refusal to speak

mutism

Motiveless resistance to all instruction

negativism

Eyes rolled back in a locked position

oculogyric crisis

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

obsession

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

compulsion

Inventing new words which I meaningful only to the person.

neologism

Extreme suspiciousness of others and their action

paranoid

Ingestion of non-edible food

pica

Exaggerated fear of non-dangerous object or situation

phobia

Occurs 30 days or less in the postpartum period

postpartum depression

Slow speech and body movement

psychomotor retardation

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

psychosis

the mind

psyche

Relieving anxiety by an individual to feel better

primary gain

Relieving anxiety with the help of others

secondary gain

Resistance to change the topic, verbally repeating of a sentence

perseveration

engrossed

preoccupied

Preoccupied of or with religious idea or content

religiosity

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

resilience

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

SSRI

Gaining sexual pleasure by inflicting pain to the partner

sadism

Adjective referring to the body

somatic

It is when a person sleepwalks

somnambulism

Persistent repetition of senseless act or words

stereotype

A self-inflicted death

suicide

Excessive drooling of saliva

sialorrhea

Reduction of saliva

xerostamia

An irreversible neurologic disorder

tardive dyskinesia

tca

tricyclic antidepressant

To increase amount of substance to achieve the same effects

tolerance

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

transference

A reaction based on the nurses past experience

countertransference

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

thought blocking

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

thought broadcasting

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

thought control

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

thought insertion

A technique to stop a client thinking of unwelcoming thoughts

thought stopping

Involuntary, recurrent muscular spasm. Motor and vocal tics.

tic

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

word salad

having no value

worthlessness