Unit 1 Flashcards
What is contraindicted?
Not recommended or safe to use.
What is comirbid?
Existing with or at the same time; for instance having two different illnesses at the same time
What is a delusion?
A false or fixed belief despite the evidence.
What is disorientation?
Confusion with regard to person, time or place.
What does dissociation mean?
A disturbance or change in the usual functions of memory, identity, perception or consciousness.
What is endogenous depression?
Depression caused by a biochemical imbalance (more severe) (internal)
What is exogenous depression?
Caused by external events or psychosocial stressors. (external)
what does folie a deux mean?
A shared delusion.
What are hallucinations?
Hearing, seeing, smelling or feeling something that is not real.
What does it mean to be hypomanic?
Elevated, expansive or being in an irritable mood that is less severe than full blown manic symptoms.
What is the difference between postmorbid and premorbid?
Postmorbid is a subsequent to the onset of an illness. Premorbid is a prior to the onset of an illness.
What does prodromal mean?
The period of time before the onset of a serious illness during which there may be subtle symptoms.
What does it mean to be psychotic?
Experiencing delusions or hallucinations.
What is overanxious disorder?
Children diffuse fears and worries that cannot be traced to specific problems or stresses.
What is encopresis?
An elimination disorder that involves repeated passage of feces in inappropriate places.
What is enuresis?
Bedwetting, considered to be developmentally appropriate in small children.
What is Rhett’s disorder?
The development of persistent and progressive development regression after a period of normal development.
(Stereotypic hand movements, problems with coordination of gait and trunk movements, profound intellectual disabilities)
(only seen in females)
What is Asperger’s?
Severe and sustained impairment of social interactions and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests and activities.
(more common in boys, social interactions)
What are antipsychotic drugs used for?
To treat psychotic symptoms; most are used to treat schizophrenia.
What are negative symptoms?
Treatment won’t respond to the symptoms.
Such as affective flattening, poverty of speech, the reduction, difficulty or inability to initiate and persist in goal directed activity.
What are phenothiazines?
Tranquilizers
What are positive symptoms?
These symptoms respond best to treatment/medication.
Such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized behavior.
