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Schizophrenia
Bipolar
PGD
Substance Abuse
Somataform
100
A chronic, disabling brain disorder that affects a person’s thinking, language, emotions, social behavior, and ability to perceive reality accurately.
What is Schizophrenia?
100
A "pervasive and sustained emotion that, in the extreme, markedly colors the person's perception of the world." (APA 1987).
What is mood?
100
Tension in response to events of day to day living, prepares for action, sharpens senses, increase motivation, increase perceptual field, heightened awareness, learning is enhanced Individual functions at optimal level.
What is mild anxiety?
100
The need for higher and higher doses of substances to achieve the desired effects
What is tolerance?
100
The expression of psychological stress through physical symptoms.
What is Somatization?
200
Affect
What is outward manifestation of feelings & emotions flat, blunted, inappropriate, or bizarre
200
"Bi " refers to two and polar refers to having poles or the opposite in character, nature, or direction. Therefore, both poles on an affect dimension are manifested.
What is Bipolar?
200
Increasing anxiety, perceptual field diminishes, less alert to events in environment, attention span and concentration diminishes, is still able to function with direction/assistance Increased muscular tension & restlessness
What is moderate anxiety?
200
Involves physiological and psychological signs and symptoms associated with stopping or reducing use of substances.
What is withdrawal?
200
There is evidence of a medical condition that may be affected by stress of psychological factors
What is Psychosomatic illness?
300
2. Associative looseness
What is disorganized thinking jumbled illogical words & speech?
300
A specifier that can be applied to Bipolar I or Bipolar II Disorder. The essential feature is the occurrence of four or more episodes during the previous 12 months.
What is rapid cycling?
300
Most intense state, inability to focus on anything, misperceptions are common, loss of contact with reality may occur (Hallucinations & delusions), behavior — wild & desperate or extreme withdrawal
What is panic anxiety?
300
Transitory recurrences of perceptual disturbance reminiscent of disturbances experience in earlier hallucinogenic intoxication
What are flashbacks?
300
Special meaning attached to a body part that is traceable to an event during an early
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
400
Autism
What is thinking not bound to reality, reflects the private perceptual world of the patient?
400
Having rapidly shifting emotions; unstable.
What is labile?
400
Are any of a group of mental processes that enables the mind to reach compromise solutions to conflicts that it is unable to resolve.
What is defense mechanisms?
400
A cluster of behaviors that prevents one individual from taking care of his or her own needs due to a preoccupation with another who is addicted to a substance.
What is co-dependence?
400
Development of one or more symptoms or deficits suggesting a neurological disorder (blindness, deafness, loss of touch) or general medical condition
What is conversion disorder?
500
4. Ambivalence
What is simultaneously holding two opposing emotions, ideas, attitudes, & wishes towards same person, situation, or objects (Person continuously vacillates between opposing positions).
500
An unstable elevated mood in which delusions, poor judgment, and other signs of impaired reality testing are evident.
What is mania?
500
Unconsciously refusing to accept what has happened that is too difficult to bear.
What is denial?
500
When one drug can prevent withdrawal symptoms associated with physical addiction to a different drug: e.g. methadone to treat heroin addiction.
What is cross-dependence?
500
Preoccupation with fears of having or the idea that one has a serious disease Preoccupation persists despite appropriate medical tests and reassurances
What is hypochondriasis?