Terms Flashcards
Echopraxia
involuntary imitation of another’s movements or gestures
Alogia
decreased production of speech
Avolition
diminished goal directed activity
Anhedonia
inability to feel pleasure or joy from life
Ansognosia
poor insight
Flat affect
restricted range of intensity of emotions
Agoraphobia
fear or being in a place or situation where one might not be able to escape
Ambivalence
a state of conflicting opposing ideas, attitudes, or emotions
Autonomy
capacity to make decisions and act on them
Battering
striking someone repeatedly with violent blows
Boundary crossing
A transient, brief excursion across a professional boundary. Action may be inadvertent, unconscious, or even purposeful and done to meet a certain therapeutic need
Boundary violation
situation resulting when there is confusion between the needs of the nurse and those of the pt. Allows nurse to meet his or her own needs rather than the pts
Classical conditioning
learned associative behavioural stimulus-response developed by Pavlov
Compassion fatigue
the emotional and physical burn-out that may interfere with caring
Competence
The degree to which a pt possesses the cognitive ability to understand and process information
Compulsion
Repetitive behaviours or mental acts that a person feels driven to do in response to an obsession
Confrontation
a technique used to help the patient take note of a behaviour and then examine it
Conservation
the ability to recognize that despite something changing shape, it maintains the characteristics that make it what it is (eg. clay)
Continuum of care
integrated system of settings, services, health care clinicians, and care levels spanning illness to wellness states
Countertransference
occurs when the hcp develops a positive or negative emotional response to the pt’s transference
Cultural competence
a set of congruent behaviours, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency or those professionals to work effectively in multi-cultural situations with diverse social groups
Cultural congruence
distance between the cultural competence characteristics of health care organizations and the pts perception of those same competence characteristics as they relate to the pts cultural needs
DBT
a form of cognitive behavioural therapy that helps individuals take responsibility for their own behaviours and problems; teaches individuals how to cope with conflict, negative feelings, and impulsivity, thereby enhancing capabilities and improving motivation, leading to decreased negative behaviour