Week 1

Question 1

Grandiose Belief

Answer 1

The belief that he has great but unrecognized talent/insight.

Question 2

Erotomanic

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Dysthymic

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Dysphonia

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Trichotillomanic

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Tardive Dyskinesia

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

Anhedonia

Answer 7

An inability to feel joy or express many pleasurable emotions.

Question 8

Hedonism

Answer 8

The pursuit of pleasurable sensual self-indulgence.

Question 9

Natal

Answer 9

Natal gender is assigned gender at birth.

Question 10

Alogia

Answer 10

Diminished speech output (one-word answers). Poverty of thought. A negative symptom of Schizophrenia.

Question 11

Aphasia

Answer 11

Impairment in production and/or comprehension of language.

Question 12

Broca Aphasia

Answer 12

Difficulty producing written or spoken, but little or no trouble in understanding.

Question 13

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Answer 13

Inability to understand written or spoken language.

Question 14

Somatic Symptoms

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Positive Symptoms

Answer 15

Include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized behavior. In the active phase of Schizophrenia.

Question 16

Ipecac Syrup

Answer 16

Use to induce vomiting after a suspected poisoning or drug overdose.

Question 17

Nihilistic Delusion

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

Enuresis

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Catatonia

Answer 19

Decreased motor activity.

Question 20

Catharsis

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Malingering

Answer 21

Faking Bad refers to a conscious effort by the client to present herself as being worse off than is really the case.

Question 22

Bilateral Otitis Media with Effusion

Answer 22

A severe form of middle ear infection and fluid leakage. Hearing loss and associated with attention deficits and specific learning disorders.

Question 23

Normalize or Reframe a Problem

Answer 23

Casts the problem in a different light and helps to make a client more receptive to change.

Question 24

Goal

Answer 24

A goal is generally phrased as a broad and fairly global statement that is the desired outcome.

Question 25

An Objective

Answer 25

Is the desired step that a client will take to achieve the desired goal - is more specific than a goal.

Question 26

A task

Answer 26

A task or activity is a problem-solving action to reach the desired objective.

Question 27

Resource System - Informal

Answer 27

IRS (natural system) includes family members, friends, co-workers, neighbour, and people who provide emotional, social, and more tangible kinds of support.

Question 28

Resource System - Formal

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

Resource System - Societal

Answer 29

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.

Question 30

Case Manager

Answer 30

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.