CMHS 1
Condition characterized by a compulsive physical and/or psychological dependence on a substance or behavior.
What is addiction?
Court determination as to which parent in a divorce retains legal responsibility for the child.
What is child custody?
Hardships; difficulties.
What is adversities
Six basic stages many families go through as a normal part of life; includes the beginning, childbearing, parenting, launching, mid-years, and aging stages.
What is the family life cycle?
Type of advance directive letting medical staff know that if a person's heart stops or the person stops breathing, he or she does not want CPR in order to be resuscitated.
What is do not resusitate?
Legal document informing family and medical workers of preferences for being kept alive by artificial means, or letting them pass when there is no chance of recovery.
Legally binding agreement that determines the payments a noncustodial parent is to make to financially contribute toward the child's care.
What is child support?
Form of care given by trained medical professionals, focusing on making a person comfortable in his or her last days and hours of life.
What is hospice care?
Capable of recovering from setbacks.
What is resilient?
Addiction of alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
Legally binding document giving directions on how to divide financial assets when a person dies.
What is Last will and Testament?
Mental anguish or sorrow a person experiences when losing a loved one.
What is grief?
Condition that affects social-emotional health and is characterized by severe mood swings that range from manic to depressive; also called manic depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
Eventual death.
What is mortality?
Children who have characteristics that make them more likely to fail in school.
What is at risk?
In divorce, legal agreement in which both parents provide care and make decisions for the child.
What is joint custody?
Event that occurs when a stressor creates adversity for the family, disrupting family function.
What is family life crisis?
Severe case of depression often caused by a combination of genetic and environmental influences.
What is clinical depression?
Threatening to or inflicting harm on another person within a close relationship, such as a family member; consists of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
What is domestic abuse?
Person's decisions involving what medical care should be provided in the event the person is no longer able to make medical decisions for him- or herself.
What is advance directives?