Vocabulary Flashcards
24 hr notice
written request for early DC from voluntary client
Affect
Presentation of client’s feelings or emotions
AIMS
Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale
Altruistic
doing good for others
Ambivalence
two opposing emotions/ ideas at the same time
Auditory hallucinations
hearing voices/sounds
BAD
bipolar affective disorder
COWS
clinical opiate withdrawal scale
BAL
Blood alcohol level
CIWA
Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for ETOH detox
CM
Case Manager
Congruence
emotions match statements
COT
Court Ordered Tx
CPSA
Community Partnership of Southern Arizona in Tucson
D/O
disorder
DD
Developmentally Disabled
Depot “D”
Decanoate (antipsych inj that lasts for 2-4 weeks)
DID
Dissociative Identity Disorder
DTO
Danger To Others
DTS
Danger to Self
Dual Dx
Concurrent co-morbidities of substance abuse/mental illness
ECT
Electroconvulsive tx
EPS
Extra Pyramidal Symptoms
ETOH
ethyl alcohol
FOI
flight of ideas
GAF
Global Assessment of Functioning higher score
GD
gravely disabled
HI
homicidial
Hypervigilance
excessive surveillance of surroundings/environment
Hypomania
threshold of entering full mania
LOA
looseness of assoiciations
MDD
Major Depressive Disorder
NOS
Not otherwise specified
OCD
Obsessive Complusive Disorder
PAD
Persistently and Acutely Disabled
Petitioned
placed on involuntary 72hr hold
Proxemic
personal space
PSA
Post suicide attempt or polysubstance abuse
RCOT
revoked court ordered tx
SI
suicidal
SMI
serious mental illness
Stimming
hearing voices/noises and responding
Tactile hallucinations
feeling bugs, pins, etc
Tarasoff
Tatiana Tarasoff the law of need to inform individuals of threats made to their safety
visual hallucinations
seeing people, objects that aren’t there
Axis 1
clinical disorders, other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention
(depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizo)
Axis II
personality disorders, mental retardation
(BPD, antisocial personality disorder)
Axis III
General medical conditions (DM, COPD)
Axis IV
psychosocial and environmental probs (legal problems, relationship probs)
Axis V
Global assessment of functioning (GAF) (<30 is depression)