Test 3 Vocab

Question 1

Vital needs for mothering, love, affection, shelter, protection, security, food, and warmth. May be a manifestation of regression when they reappear excessively in adults.

Answer 1

Dependency needs

Question 2

Characterized by an excessive need to be taken care of, resulting in submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation. May include excessive need for advice and reassurance about everyday decisions.

Answer 2

Dependent personality disorder

Question 3

Feelings of sadness, despair, and discouragement.

Answer 3

Depression

Question 4

Lack of adequate and appropriate interpersonal and/or environmental experience, usually in the early developmental years.

Answer 4

Emotional deprivation

Question 5

A two person relationship, such as the therapeutic relationship between doctor and patient in individual psychotherapy.

Answer 5

dyad

Question 6

Parrot-like repetition of overheard words or fragments of speech. It may be a symptom of a developmental disorder, a neurological disorder, or schizophrenia.

Answer 6

Echolalia

Question 7

The use of electric current with anesthetics and muscle relaxants to induce convulsive seizures. Most effective in the treatment of depression.

Answer 7

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

Question 8

A patient’s unauthorized departure from a psychiatric facility.

Answer 8

Elopement

Question 9

Insightful awareness of the meaning and significance of the feelings, emotions, and behavior of another person.

Answer 9

Empathy

Question 10

A treatment technique using the child’s play as a medium for expression and communication between patient and therapist.

Answer 10

play therapy

Question 11

An anxiety disorder in which exposure to an exceptional mental or physical stressor is followed, sometimes immediately and sometimes not until 6 months or more after the stress, by persistent reexperiencing of the event, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma or numbing of general responsiveness, and manifestations of hyperarousal.

Answer 11

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or- what we will suffer from after dealing with Brenda

Question 12

A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which an individual attributes to another person an unacceptable thought, feeling, or attribute, such as an aggressive or sexual impulse, that in fact is his or her own.

Answer 12

projection

Question 13

The cessation or significant reduction of use of a chemical substance in a person with a pattern of heavy or prolonged use of that substance, often accompanied by symptoms.

Answer 13

withdrawal