Mood Disorders
Other Psychiatric Disoders
Substance Use Disorder
Psych Terms
Psych Vocab
100

The number one cause of suicide

What is Depression?

100

A disorder that leads to avoidant behavior, high reactivity, and can trigger flashbacks

What is PTSD?

100

Continued use of substances despite negative consequences

What is Dependence?

100

Partial or symbolic return to more infantile patterns of reacting or thinking

What is Regression?

100

False beliefs held despite proof of the contrary

What are Delusions?

200

Difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions

What are some of the symptoms of Depression?

200

A serious disorder that affects thinking and feeling; may involve paranoia, hallucinations, nonsensical speech, and/or preoccupation with the occult

What is Schizophrenia?

200

A behavioral pattern of abuse that includes fixation on a particular substance and securing its source

What is Addiction?

200

When symptoms begin to worsen

What is Decompensation?

200

Seeing, feeling, tasting, or hearing something that doesn't really exist

What are Hallucinations?

300

An illness involving one or more episodes of serious mania and depression.

What is Bipolar Disorder?

300

A disorder evidenced by viewing things in extremes, suicidal behaviors, recurring threats, unstable relationships

What is Borderline Personality Disorder?

300

Tremor, Sweats, Agitation; Tactile, Auditory, and/or Visual Disturbances

What are symptoms of Alcohol Withdrawal?

300

Pathological repetition of another person's words

What is Echolalia?

300

Filling in memory gaps with imagined experiences

What is Confabulation?

400

Excessive energy, euphoria, poor judgment, unrealistic beliefs

What are symptoms of Mania?

400

A disorder characterized by impulsivity, poor ability to focus, and frequent bursts of energy as if running on a motor

What is ADHD?

400

Bone/Joint Aches, Runny Nose, Tearing, Gooseflesh Skin, Yawning

What are symptoms of Opiate Withdrawal?

400

Muscular rigidity, tremors, drooling, shuffling gait, involuntary postures, motor inertia

What are symptoms of Extrapyramidal Syndrome?

400

Persistent, repetitive expression of a single idea in response to various questions

What is Perseveration?

500

Dysthymia coupled with hypomanic moods

What is Cyclothymia?

500

A disorder evidenced by spiteful/vindictive behaviors as well as quick tempers and annoying others deliberately

What is ODD?

500

The scales use to assess patients who are withdrawing from substances

What are CIWA and COWS?

500

Verbal skipping from one idea to another without completing a thought

What is Flight of Ideas?

500

Socioenvironmental therapy in which activities and experiences are managed in a way to meet patients' interpersonal and emotional needs

What is Milieu Therapy?