Week 1 Flashcards
Grandiose Belief
The belief that he has great but unrecognized talent/insight.
Erotomanic
A delusion or belief in which a person (typically a woman) believes that another person (typically of higher social status) is in love with them.
Dysthymic
Persistent mild depression. A mood disorder characterized by chronic, mildly depressed or irritable mood. Often accompanied by eating and sleeping disturbances, fatigue, and poor self-esteem.
Dysphonia
A state of feeling uneasy, unhappy or unwell. Can have causes that aren’t due to an underlying disease i.e. mood, financial, response to a tragedy.
Trichotillomanic
Also called a hair-pulling disorder. Involves recurrent, irresistible urges to pull out hair from your scalp, eyebrows or other areas, despite trying to stop.
Tardive Dyskinesia
A potentially irreversible side effect of long term use of the first-generation (traditional) antipsychotic drug. Symptoms include rhythmical, stereotyped movements of the muscle of the face, limbs, and trunk.
Anhedonia
An inability to feel joy or express many pleasurable emotions.
Hedonism
The pursuit of pleasurable sensual self-indulgence.
Natal
Natal gender is assigned gender at birth.
Alogia
Diminished speech output (one-word answers). Poverty of thought. A negative symptom of Schizophrenia.
Aphasia
Impairment in production and/or comprehension of language.
Broca Aphasia
Difficulty producing written or spoken, but little or no trouble in understanding.
Wernicke’s Aphasia
Inability to understand written or spoken language.
Somatic Symptoms
An extreme focus on physical symptoms such as pain or fatigue that cause emotional distress and problems functioning. May, or may not have another Dx condition associated with symptoms but a reaction to symptoms is not normal.
Positive Symptoms
Include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized behavior. In the active phase of Schizophrenia.
Ipecac Syrup
Use to induce vomiting after a suspected poisoning or drug overdose.
Nihilistic Delusion
The irrational belief that a major catastrophe will occur or part of the world or one’s body does not exist or will be destroyed.
Enuresis
Repeated voiding of urine into the bed or clothes at least twice a week for three or more consecutive months. Usually involuntary but can be deliberate and is not due to substance use or other medical condition. dx must be at least 5 years or equivalent developmental level.
Catatonia
Decreased motor activity.
Catharsis
The healthful (therapeutic) release of ideas through “talking out” conscious material, accompanied by an appropriate emotional reaction. Also the release into awareness of repressed (forgotten) material from the unconscious.
Malingering
Faking Bad refers to a conscious effort by the client to present herself as being worse off than is really the case.
Bilateral Otitis Media with Effusion
A severe form of middle ear infection and fluid leakage. Hearing loss and associated with attention deficits and specific learning disorders.
Normalize or Reframe a Problem
Casts the problem in a different light and helps to make a client more receptive to change.
Goal
A goal is generally phrased as a broad and fairly global statement that is the desired outcome.
An Objective
Is the desired step that a client will take to achieve the desired goal - is more specific than a goal.
A task
A task or activity is a problem-solving action to reach the desired objective.
Resource System - Informal
IRS (natural system) includes family members, friends, co-workers, neighbour, and people who provide emotional, social, and more tangible kinds of support.
Resource System - Formal
FRS (organizational system) where people hold membership such a rotary club, league of women, NASW etc. Largely autonomous and are composed of local people with a shared interest.
Resource System - Societal
SRS (public and private agencies) are institutionalized organizations or services to provide specific kinds of assistance such as schools, libraries, housing authority, health clinics, etc.
Case Manager
The overall focus is on the client’s relationship with his environment. This is based on the ecological perspective which assumes that a person has needs that are met by resource in his environment and that the environment makes demands that are responded to by capacities within the person. for healthy and adaptive function there must be a balance of resources. During the assessment, a CM examins which need and demands must be balanced by which resources. The goal is to develop the clients competence to achieve and maintain this balance by himself.
