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Week 4: Terms and concepts to know Flashcards

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Abstract thinking

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the ability to find meaning in proverbs; the ability to conceptualize.

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Affect

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emotional range attached to ideas; outwardly demonstrated; feeling, mood, or emotional tone.
Such as appropriate, blunted, flat, inappropriate, labile.

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Akathisia

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motor restlessness, generally expressed as the inability to sit still, caused by the dopamine blockade by certain types of neuroleptic medications; an extrapyramidal side effect (EPSE).

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Ambivalence

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opposing impulses or feelings directed toward the same person or object at the same time

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Anergia

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absence of energy caused by changes in brain chemistry, anatomy, or both.

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Anticholinergic effect

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Effect caused by drugs that block acetylcholine receptors. Common anticholinergic effects include dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation, and urinary hesitance.

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Apathy

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lack of feeling, interest, or emotion; indifference that is occasionally a mechanism for avoiding intense emotions.

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Autism

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  1. preoccupation with self without concern for external reality; a self-made private world of the individual with schizophrenia.
  2. a disorder markedly abnormal or impaired development in social interactions and communication occurring in early childhood.
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Avolition

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lack of motivation

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Bizarre

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markedly unusual in appearance, thought, style, character, or behavior; absurd.

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Blocking

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unconscious interruption in train of thought

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Bradykinesia

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slow or retarded movement

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Catatonia

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immobility as a result of psychological reasons.

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Circumstantiality

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digression of inappropriate thoughts into ideas, eventually reaching the desired goal

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Clang associations

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words similar in sound, but not in meaning, that conjure up new thoughts

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Cognition

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act or process of knowing and perceiving

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Concrete communication

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inability to think and communicate abstractly

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Congruence

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accordant states. examples includes mood congruence, in which the person’s visible emotional state correlates with his or her mood or feeling state.

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Delusion

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fixed, false belief, not consistent with the person;s intelligence and cultural; unamenable to reason.
Includes bizarre, nihilistic, paranoid, persecution, reference, or somatic.

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Depersonalization

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feeling of unreality or strangeness related to one’s self, body parts, bodily functions, or external environment.

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Derealization

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distortion of spatial relationships so that the environment becomes unfamiliar.

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Distractibillity

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inability to concentrate attention

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Dyskinesia

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disturbed coordination and motor activity, usually producing a jerky motion; an EPSE of neuroleptic medications related to their effect on dopamine receptors

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Echopraxia

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imitation of the body position of another

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Echolalia

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psychopathologic repeating of words of one person by another, noted in types of schizophrenia

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Extrapyramidal side effects

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involuntary muscle movements resulting from the effects of neuroleptic drugs on the extrapyramidal system. These drugs cause a dopamine blockade that creates a dopamine-acetylcholine imbalance. EPSEs include akathisia, akinesia, dystonia, drug induced parkinsonism, and neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS).

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Etiology

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study of the causes of disease. including both direct and predisposing effects

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Gravely disabled

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person who is unable to provide food, clothing, or shelter for himself or herself because of a mental illness

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Flight of ideas

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speech pattern demonstrated by a rapid transition from topic to topic, frequently without completing any of the preceding ideas; prominent in the manic states.

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Idiopathic

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without known cause

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Ideas of reference

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belief that some events have a special meaning (people laughing are perceived as laughing at the patient)

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Incidence

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the rate at which a certain condition occurs, as the number of new cases of a specific mental disorder occurring during a certain period.

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Illusion

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misinterpretation os a sensory input; observed in alcoholic withdrawal and delirious states

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Ipsilateral

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same side of the body

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Involuntary commitment

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commitment status in which a person who has the legal capacity to consent to mental health treatment refuses to do so and is involuntarily detained for treatment by the state.

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Limit setting

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holding individuals to established norms with the intent of assisting them to function more constructively

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Least restrictive alternative

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environment that provides the necessary treatment requirements in the least restrictive setting possible. EX: hospital setting is more restrictive than a board and care setting.

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Milieu

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environment or setting

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Loose association

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patterns of speech in which a person’s ideas slip off track onto another that is completely unrelated or only slightly related

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Mood

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individual’s internal state of mind that is exhibited through feelings and emotions

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Milieu management

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purposeful manipulation of the environment to promote a therapeutic atmosphere.

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Negativism

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motiveless resistance to all instruction

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Mutsim

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refusal to speak

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Oculogyric crisis

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involuntary toni muscle spasms of the eye. The eyes usually roll upwards in a fixed stare. This very frightening dystonic reaction is caused by antipsychotic drugs

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Nihilistic ideas

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thoughts of nonexistence and hopelessness

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Perseveration

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psychopathologic repetition of the same word or idea in response to different questions

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Paranoia

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extreme suspiciousness of others and their actions

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Prevalence

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estimate of the frequency of a disease condition in the population (ADHD affects 5-11% of school age children)

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Premorbid

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state before onset of disorder

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Psychopathology

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study of underlying processes, both biological and psychosocial, that lead to mental disorders

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Psychomotor retardation

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markedly slowed speech and body movements

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Psychotherapeutic management

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model for nursing care that balances the three primary intervention models used by psychiatric nurses: therapeutic nurse-patient relationship, psychopharmacology, and milieu management.

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Psychosis

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inability to recognize reality, complicated by severe thought disorders and the inability to relate to others.

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Stereotypy

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continuous repetition of speech or physical activities.

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Psychotropic medications

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medications used in the treatment of mental illness

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Tardive dyskinesia

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extrapyramidal syndrome that usually emerges late in the course of long term anitpsychotic drug therapy; includes grimacing, buccolingual movements, and dystonia (impaired muscle tons); might be irreversible

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Suicidal ideation

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individual’s thinking about and inclination toward self-injury or self-destruction

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Dystonia

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rigidity in muscles that control posture, gait, or ocular movements; an EPSE of neuroleptic medications that block dopamine

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Thought disorder

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thinking characterized by loose assoications, neologisms, and illogical constructs and conclusions.

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