Terms

Question 1

Sequela

Answer 1

Complication or condition following a prior illness or disease.

Question 2

Acculturation

Answer 2

The process of adopting the cultural norms of the majority culture.

Question 3

Lability

As in labile mood.

Answer 3

Rapid shifts in mood/emotion over brief perids of time.

i.e. alternation among euphoria, dysphoria and irritability.

Question 4

Alexithymia

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Self-other-difficulties

Answer 5

Difficulty understanding and describing emotions and symptoms.

Question 6

Anosognosia

Answer 6

Lack of insight into one’s own illness and its effects.

Question 7

Avolition

Answer 7

Inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activities.

hobbies, work/school, routine actities, social engagement

Question 8

Confabulation

Answer 8

Unconscious filling in of memory gaps by imagined events.

Question 9

Egodystonic

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

Ego-syntonic

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Euthymic

Answer 11

Neutral/Normal

Question 12

Exapansive

Answer 12

Unrestrained expression of feelings.

Question 13

Echopraxia

Answer 13

Imitation of movements.

Question 14

Alogia

Answer 14

Lack of speech.

Question 15

Dysprosody

Answer 15

Abnormal rhythm of speech.

Question 16

Echolalia

Answer 16

Imitation of words/sounds.

Question 17

Logorrhea

Answer 17

Excessive amounts of speech.

“Verbal diarrhea”

Question 18

Pressured Speech

Answer 18

Speech that is very rapid and difficult to interrupt.

Common to mania.

Question 19

Depersonalization

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Derealization

Answer 20

Experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings.

Objects are experienced as unreal; dreamlike, foggy, lifeless, vis. dis.

Question 21

Malingering

Answer 21

Providing false and grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms.

Common in Antisocial Personality Disorder

Question 22

Malingering

Answer 22

Providing false and grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms.

Common in Antisocial Personality Disorder

Question 23

Dichotomous Thinking

Answer 23

All or nothing thinking.

Question 24

Egodystonic

Answer 24

Behavior that occurs when the client perceives the behavior is not a part of the self.

Question 25

Egosyntonic

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

Mentalization

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

Tangential Thinking

Answer 27

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.”

Question 28

Empathic Attunement

When we gently tune into, sense, and resonate with cl.’s experience.

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Alexythymia

Question 30

Soft Signs

Answer 30

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.