Test 4 Vocab Flashcards
A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
Euphoria
Drug induced movement disorders that include acute and tardive symptoms.
Extrapyramidal syndrome
Indicates insufficient weight gain or inappropriate weight loss.
Failure to thrive
A type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that helps family members improve communication and resolve conflicts.
Family Therapy
An obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something.
Fixation
A rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
Flight of ideas
A system of behaviors and psychological processes occurring within a social group, or between social groups.
Group dynamics
An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present.
Hallucination
The treatment of mental disorder by psychological rather than medical means.
Psychotherapy
A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other’s feelings or ideas and communicate well.
Rapport
A return to a former or less developed state.
Regression
A disorder of cognitive organization, characteristic of psychotic mental illness, in which thoughts and conversation appear illogical and lacking in sequence and may be delusional or bizarre in content.
Thought disorder (What Brenda suffers from?)
A medicinal drug taken to reduce tension or anxiety.
Tranquilizer
