Vocab Unit 1 (2) Flashcards
Milieu Therapy
A scientific structuring of the environment in order to effect behavioral changes and to improve the psychological health and functioning of the individual
Pyschotherapy
Purpose is to assist the client to more effectively deal with emotional and social problems. May be a nurse, social worker, psychologist or psychiatrist.
Mood
An individual’s sustained emotional tone, which significantly influencs behavior, personality, and perception
Congruence with mood affect
Outward emotional expression is consistent with mood
Constricted or Blunted Affect
Minimal outward emotional expression is observed
Flat Affect
There is an absence of outward emotional expression
Appropriate Affect
The outward emotional expression is what would be expected in a certain situation (crying upon hearing of a death)
Inappropriate Affect
The outward emotional expression is incompatible with the situation (laughing upon hearing of a death
Depressed Mood
- An overwhelming feeling of sadness
- Loss of interest in regular activities
Irritable Mood
Easily annoyed and provoked to anger
Anxious Mood
Demonstrates or verbalizes feeling of apprehension
Elated Mood
- Expresses feelings of joy and intense pleasure
- Is intensely optimistic
Euphoric Mood
- Demonstrates a heightened sense of elation
- Expresses feelings of grandeur
Fearful Mood
Demonstrates or verbalizes feeling of apprehension associated with real or perceived danger
Guilty Mood
- Expresses a feeling of discomfort associated with real or perceived wrongdoing
- May be associated with feelings of sadness and despair
Labile Mood
Exhibits mood swings that range from euphoria to depression or anxiety
Persecutory Delusion
A belief that someone is out to get him or her in some way
Grandoise Delusion
An idea that he or she is all-powerful or of great importance
Reference Delusion
An idea that whatever is happening in the environment is about him or her
Control or Influence Delusion
A belief that his or her behavior and thoughts are being controlled by external forces
Somatic Delusion
A belief that he or she has a dysfunctional body part
Nihilistic Delusion
A belief that he or she, a part of the body, or even the world does not exist or has been destroyed
Contents of thought
- Delusions
- Suicidal or Homicidal ideas
- Obsessions
- Paranoia/suspiciousness
- Magical Thinking
- Religioisity
- Phobias
- Poverty of content (little information conveyed by the client because of vagueness or sterotypical statements or cliches)
Insight
- Ability to solve problems and make decisions
- Knowledge about self
- Adaptive/maladaptive use of coping strategies and ego defense mechanisms
Flight of ideas
Verbalizations are continous and rapid and flow from one to another
Associative looseness
Verbalizations shift from one unrelated topic to another
Circumstantiality
Verbilizations are lengthy and tedious and because of numerous details, are delayed reaching the intended point
Tangentiality
Verbalizations are lengthy and tedious and never reach an intended point
Neologisms
The individual is making up nonsensical sounding words, which only have meaning to him or her
Concrete thinking
- Thinking is literal, elemental
- Absence of ability to think abstractly
- Unable to translate simple proverbs
Clang associations
Speaking in puns of rhymes; using words that sound alike but have different meanings
Word Salad
Using a mixture of words that have no meaning together; sounding incoherent
Perseveration
Persistently repeating the last word of a sentence spoken to the client
Echolalia
Persistently repeating what another person says
Mutism
Does not speak (either cannot or will not
Poverty of speech
Speaks very little, may respond in monosyllables
