Diagnosis
An unpleasant emotional, cognitive, behavioral, or physical experience of stress.
State of unstable emotions, which often presents a mood swing, such as rapidly alternating between laughter and tears.
What is lability?
An emotional bond - tendency to become calm and soothed in the presence of a caregiver.
What is attachment?
Structured system for monitoring uncomfortable and distressing symptoms and through planned responses, reducing modifying, or eliminating those symptoms.
What is exposure therapy?
Pre-contemplation, contemplation, determination, action, maintenance
What is the Theoretical Model of Change?
A pattern in which a person under or over responds to sensory input from the body or environment. A mismatch between the external contextual demands and a person's internal characteristic.
What is Sensory Modulation Dysfuntion?
Lack of observable emotion.
What is flat affecct?
An innate tendency to seek novelty and strive for challenge and mastery.
What is intrinsic motivation?
A way of being with people in the change process, that is used with people who are not ready to change or are ambivalent to change. Consists of open questions, affirmation, reflective listening, and summary reflections (OARS).
A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person
What is stigma?
A condition marked by anxiety about one or more social situations in which exposed to possible scrutiny by others.
What is social anxiety?
Hallucinations, delusions, pressured speech, and restlessness.
What are positive symptoms of Schizophrenia?
Journey of healing and transformation enabling a person with a mental health problem to live a meaningful life in a community of his or her choice while striving to achieve his or her full potential.
What is recovery?
Use of structured, goal-oriented sessions, in which patients are taught to identify, evaluate, and respond to their dysfunctional thoughts and beliefs.
What is cognative behavior therapy (CBT)?
Who are the best mental healh professors?
A condition characterized by depressed mood for most of the day, for more days than not, as indicated by subjective report for at least two years, without mania.
What is Persistant Depressive Disorder?
The conscious exclusion of distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings from the conscious mind
What is Repression?
Belief in your own capability, which motivates you to act; when you experience success you have positive belief about skills and abilities.
What is self-efficay?
Type of medication for schizophrenia that reduces hallucinations and has fewer side effects, yet also causes weight gain.
What are atypicals?
Policy formation, policy implementation, policy modification
What are he basics of policy making?
Disorder marked by significant impairment in social interaction, restricted or repetitive behaviors, and the impairments interfere significantly with daily life. There does not need to be impairment in early language development.
What is Asperger's Disorder?
The mental control needed for the brain to maintain goal directed behaviors
What is executive funtioning?
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity need for admiration
What is Narcissistic
The methods a person consciously uses to take charge of their thoughts, feelings, and actions in order to deal with stressful situations.
What are coping strategies?
An accurate representation of a community with information about the population, employment rates, business and industry, land use, educational opportunities, housing, recreational opportunities, and health services.
What is a neighborhood profile?