Terms Flashcards
Sequela
Complication or condition following a prior illness or disease.
Acculturation
The process of adopting the cultural norms of the majority culture.
Lability
As in labile mood.
Rapid shifts in mood/emotion over brief perids of time.
i.e. alternation among euphoria, dysphoria and irritability.
Alexithymia
No words for emotions.
Avoidance is a common issue associated with alexithymia; which is a personality trait that reflects deficits in cognitive processing and regulation of emotions.
Self-other-difficulties
Difficulty understanding and describing emotions and symptoms.
Anosognosia
Lack of insight into one’s own illness and its effects.
Avolition
Inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activities.
hobbies, work/school, routine actities, social engagement
Confabulation
Unconscious filling in of memory gaps by imagined events.
Egodystonic
Thoughts that are unwanted and inconsistent with what someone normally believes when they are well.
The client is aware that something is wrong and wants to change it.
Behavior is not a part of self.
Ego-syntonic
Behaviors, values and feelings that are in harmony with, or acceptable, to the needs and goals of the ego, or consistent iwth one’s ideal self-image.
Euthymic
Neutral/Normal
Exapansive
Unrestrained expression of feelings.
Echopraxia
Imitation of movements.
Alogia
Lack of speech.
Dysprosody
Abnormal rhythm of speech.
Echolalia
Imitation of words/sounds.
Logorrhea
Excessive amounts of speech.
“Verbal diarrhea”
Pressured Speech
Speech that is very rapid and difficult to interrupt.
Common to mania.
Depersonalization
Experiences of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer with respect to one’s thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, or actions.
perceptual alterations, distorted sense of time, physical numbing
Derealization
Experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings.
Objects are experienced as unreal; dreamlike, foggy, lifeless, vis. dis.
Malingering
Providing false and grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms.
Common in Antisocial Personality Disorder
Malingering
Providing false and grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms.
Common in Antisocial Personality Disorder
Dichotomous Thinking
All or nothing thinking.
Egodystonic
Behavior that occurs when the client perceives the behavior is not a part of the self.
Egosyntonic
Behaviors, values, and feelings that are in harmony with, or acceptable, to the needs and goals consistent with one’s ideal self-image.
Common with personality disorders.
Mentalization
A lack of understanding of one’s own and other people’s feelings thus experienceing difficulties in regulating one’s own problematic emotions and behavior.
Tangential Thinking
A disturbance in the thought process that causes the individual to relate excessive or irrelevant detail that never reaches the essential point of a conversation or the desired answer to a question.
Example: a therapist poses the question, “How was your week?” a person may respond with, “When I was five, my cat was killed.”
Empathic Attunement
When we gently tune into, sense, and resonate with cl.’s experience.
Horizontal Resonding/Self-Diclosure: Here & Now of why someone chose to talk about something, what does sharing make you feel at that moment?
Vertical Responding/Self-Disclosure: More in-depth sharing of the where, when, why and how of the event. Can be very emotional.
Soft Sign
A lack of feelings. Some symptoms might include: anger, confusion, difficulty “reading faces,” discomfort, emptiness, increased heart rate, lack of affection, and panic. There are difficulties in identifying and describing feelings, difficulties in discerning between bodily sensations and feelings, and a cognitive style marked by concrete thinking
Alexythymia
Soft Signs
Soft signs are detectable abnormal motor or sensor findings that include poor motor coordination, sensory perceptual difficulties, and involuntary movements. Major categories are motor movements, graphesthesia, stereognosis, and continuity of movement.
