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A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease
Health (WHO)
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Decreased intelligibility of speech, may be due to side effects of psychotropic medication
Dysarthria
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Deficiency in content of speech compared to what level of information is normally expected
Alogia
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Interruption of train of speech before completion
Blocking
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Speech that is highly detailed and very delayed at reaching its goal
Circumstantiality
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Sounds, rather than meaningful relationships, appear to govern words or topics
Clanging
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Ideas slip off the topic's track on to another which is obliquely related or unrelated
Derailment
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During mid speech, the subject is changed in response to a stimulus
Distractible Speech
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Echoing of one's or other people's speech that may only be committed once, or may be continuous in repetition
Echolalia
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Attempts to express ideas and/or feelings about another individual come out as evasive or in a diluted form
Evasive Interaction
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A sequence of loose associations or extreme tangentiality where the speaker goes quickly from one idea to another seemingly unrelated idea
Flight of ideas
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Speech that is unintelligible because, though the individual words are real words, the manner in which they are strung together results in incoherent gibberish
Incoherence (Word Salad)
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New word formations
Neologisms
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Persistent repetition of words or ideas
Perseveration
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An increase in the amount of spontaneous speech compared to what is considered customary
Pressure of speech
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Replying to questions in an oblique, tangential or irrelevant manner
Tangentiality
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Inability to express a set of well-structured, logically related ideas
Loose Associations
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Inability to identify an object by touch without visual input
Astereognosis
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Observable behavior representing one's emotions
Affect
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State of unstable emotions
Lability
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Eager and exuberant mood regardless of the environmental reality
Mania
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Awareness of time, place, and person
Orientation
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Involuntary movements of the tongue, face, lips, trunk, and extremities
Tardive Dyskinesias
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Result of internal and external stimuli that evoke intense and patterned activation of autonomic nervous system
Affective (hot) Violence
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Planned, purposeful, goal directed violence
Predatory (cold) Violence
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Patient would rather not be alive, but does not indicate plan that involves act of initation
Passive Ideation
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Patient has acute thoughts of completing suicide
Active
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Sex (male)
Age (adolescent or elderly)
Depression
Previous Attempt
Ethanol Abuse
Rational Thinking Loss (psychosis)
Social Supports Lacking
Organized Plan
No Spouse/Partner
Sickness
SAD PERSONS
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Provides authority, criteria, procedures, and timelines for apprehension, detention, admission and treatment of an individual as a formal patient and provides specific criteria for provision of supportive treatment
Mental Health Act (MHA)
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Process by which it assigns an agent to be an alternative decision maker (domain specific) when a person is unable to make non-financial decisions for themselves
Personal Directive Act
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New decision making options which allow for as much autonomy as possible and that can be tailored to different levels of capacity (supported decision making, co decision making, specific decision making, guardianship & trusteeship)
Adult Guardian and Trustee Act
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Designation of alternative decision maker for financial affairs
Power of Attorney Act
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Defines response and responsibilities when abuse is reported for persons in care or receiving support services by publicly funded agencies
Protection of Persons in Care Act
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Means by which an individual can request access to their medical information
Health Information Act
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Governs how individuals can access and correct their information and how agencies can store and use private information
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
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Inability to feel pleasure
Anhedonia
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Anxiety about being in places or situations where it is difficult to escape and may be embarrassing
Agoraphobia
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Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses or images that are intrusive and cause marked anxiety
Obsessions
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Repetitive behaviors or mental acts designed to prevent or reduce stress or prevent a dreaded event or situation
Compulsions
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Complex array of biological, intrapsychic and interpersonal factors that create/maintain mental dysfunction
Biopsychosocial Focus
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Employ ideas and techniques from variety of perspectives to understand and effectively treat client's problems
Eclectic Approach
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Experiencing world from client's perspective
Empathy
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Lobe of brain where higher mental functions occur (thinking & planning)
Frontal Lobe
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Lobe of brain where processes information about pain, pressure, body temperature
Parietal Lobe
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Lobe of brain that involves memory, perception, language processing
Temporal Lobe
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Lobe of brain where visual processing occurs
Occipital
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Expected rules in inpatient settings
Mileau Treatment
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Subjective experience of individual
Symptom
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Deficit in ability to perform tasks
Dysfunction
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Result of process of elimination in which disorder is identified by meeting specific criteria
Diagnosis
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Higher intellectual functions of abstraction, reasoning, judgment, and analysis
Thought
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Ability to connect mental processes with current actions (planning, organizing)
Executive Function
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Deep seated beleifs not based in reality
Delusions
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Specific and unwanted thought that is typically unwanted and can't be eliminated by reasoning
Obsession
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Extremely literal verbal responses
Concreteness
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Ideas shift from one subject to something completely unrelated
Loosening of associations
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Person digresses giving unnecessary, irrelevent information
Circumstantiality
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Person starts answering but rapidly digresses
Tangentiality
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Inability to plan and coordinate complex motor actions
Apraxia
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Perceptual images experienced as sensations but not based on stimulation from external environment
Hallucinations
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Milder form of perceptual distortion where outside object is real but person misinterprets
Illusion
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Lack of observable emotion
Flat Affect
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State of unstable emotions
Lability
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Automatic sequence of behaviors (conditioned responses)
Procedural Memory
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Memory specific to consciously learned facts
Declarative Memory
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Using meaning of words and ability to classify information or ideas
Semantic Memory
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Knowledge of personal experiences
Episodic memory
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Remembering to carry out actions in future
Prospective Memory
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Unknowing fabrication of events to fill in gaps of true memory
Confabulation
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Schizophrenia: focused on negative symptoms that are enduring and not attributable to other sources
Deficit Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia: prominant positive symptoms and more severe mood symptoms
Nondeficit Schizophrenia
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General lack of drive, or motivation to pursue meaningful goals
Avolition
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Decreased enjoyment
Hypohedonia
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Inability to remain motionless
Akathisia
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Inability to initiate movement
Akinesia
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Include extreme restlessness, involuntary movements, and uncontrollable speech. Often associated with atypical antipsychotic medication. Reversible
Extrapyramidal Symptoms
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Any time where client feels abnormally happy or sad
Episode
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Milder form of bipolar that lasts longer
Cyclothymia
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Milder form of major depressive episode but lasts longer
Dysthymia
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One or more periods of depression (no necessary mania)
Depressive
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One or more manic episodes (with history of at least 1 major depressive episode)
Bipolar
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Elevated mood last at least 4 days
Hypomanic
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Criteria for both manic and depressive met everyday for at least 1 week
Mixed
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Pattern of illness due to abnormal mood
Disorders
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Dominant manic mood
Bipolar I
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Dominant depressed mood
Bipolar II
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Descriptors that help qualify disorders or episodes
Specifiers
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Eat and sleep a lot, extremely sensitive to rejection
Atypical Specifier
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Loss of appetite, guilt, feel slow, or agitated
Melancholic Specifier
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Extreme motor hyperactivity or extreme inactivity
Catatonic Specifier
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Manic or depressed within 1 month of giving birth
Postpartum Specifier
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At least 4 episodes within 1 year
Rapid Cycling
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Become ill regularly at same time each year
Seasonal Pattern
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Anxiety that clearly affects and hinders daily function and is no longer servicable
Clinical Anxiety
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Unpleasant emotional, cognitive, behavioural, or physical experiences of stress
Anxiety
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Enduring personality style that manifests persistent anxiety
Trait Anxiety
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Time limited anxiety that diminishes with problem resolution
Acute Anxiety
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Predictive anciety in response to future actual or imagined situations
Anticipatory Anxiety
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Persists, developed around new stressors after immediate problems are resolved
Chronic Anxiety
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Generalized anxiety which may be vague in origin
Free Floating Anxiety
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Limited period of intense fear or distress
Panic Attack
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Avoidance of, or suffering through, situations where might be difficult to leave or embarrassed to have panic attack
Agoraphobia
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Recurrent or illogical and excessive fear and anxiety from expectation of or actual encounter with stimulus, object or situation
Specific Phobia
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Excessive fears of potentially humiliating social or performance situations where there is anticipation of examination or judgement
Social Phobia
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Recurrent obsessions and compulsions that cause distress and anxiety
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Overwhelming traumatic event that impacts daily functioning
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Similar to PTSD but symptoms develop within 1 month and least 2 days-1 month
Acute Stress Disorder
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Persistent, uncontrollable and excessive anxiety or worry
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Physiological effect of drug, medication, or toxin
Substance Induced Anxiety Disorder
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Mental state of being aware of one's sensations, thoughts, bodily states, consciousness and environment while also being accepting, open and curious
Mindfulness
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Focus on real encounters with anxiety producing objects and using variety of techniques to master situation
In Vivo Exposure
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Incremental exposure to anxiety producing stimulus
Systematic Densensitization
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Treatment in which evoke fear in controlled setting
Interoceptive Densensitization
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Relax mind and body through verbal commands
Autogenic Training
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Baby shoes no preference for 1 attachment figure - indiscriminate in attention seeking
Phase 1 of Attachment (birth - 2-3mths)
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Baby distinguishes between caregivers and prefers 1 figure
Phase 2 of Attachment (2-3mths - 7mths)
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Baby becomes more active in seeking physical proximity and social contact with caregiver and begins to develop IWMs or representations
Phase 3 of Attachment (7mths - 3yrs)
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Baby shows evidence of behaviors that signal goal directed partnership
Phase 4 of Attachment (3+ yrs)
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Representations of past interactions and allow predicting future experience
Internal Working Models (IWMs)
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Early stress and developmental trauma in form of attachment disruptions caused by toxic parenting or separation influences hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system
HPA Effect
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Unable to form attachments (inhibited) or forms attachments with everyone (disinhibited)
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
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Failure to provide for basic safety and welfare
Neglect
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Deliberate destruction or alteration of on'es body tissues without conscious suicidal intent
Self-Mutilation
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Acute confusional state accompanied by agitation with quick onset and fluctuating levels of alertness
Delirium
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Limited ability to express emotions and feelings
Blunting
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Cognitive impairments of persons with frontal lobe damage that inhibits them from recognizing deficits in cognition, perception, or mobility
Anosognosia
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Loss of control of body movements
Ataxia
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Belief that spouse is unfaithful
Delusional jealousy
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Feelings of unreality
Depersonalization
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Involuntary movements similar to tics
Dyskinesia
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Sustained feelings of success, confidence and well-being
Elevated
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Unrealistic sense of superiority
Grandiose
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Inability, of which person may be unaware, to sustain concentration or attention
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Emotional state that usually colors one's whole psychological treatment
Mood
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Absent or decreased emotional and behavioral repertoire (flat affect, alogia, avolition, anhedonia, or hypohedonia)
Negative Symptoms
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Active symptoms of psychotic disorders, including delusions and hallucinations as well as disorganized speech and behavior
Positive Symptoms
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Significant impairment of reality testing and daily functioning due to the presence of positive symptoms
Psychosis
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Physical affect on body
Somatic
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Distinguishing characteristcs of one's personal nature
Traits
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Delusions that another person, usually of higher status is in love with self
Eratomanic
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Inflated appraisal of one's worth, power, knowledge, importance or identity
Grandiose
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Feeling that causal incidents and external events have a particular and unusual meaning specific to person
Ideas of Reference
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False perceptions that occur when waking
Hypnopompic
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Significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expression
Blunted
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None or nearly no emotional expression
Flat
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Impaired ability to learn new information or recall previously learned information
Memory impairment
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Failure to recognize or identify objects despite intact sensory function
Agnosia
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Impaired ability to carry out motor activities despite intact motor function
Apraxia
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Language disturbance
Aphasia
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Alteration in perception or experience of external world so that it seems strange or unreal
Dissociation
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Apparent motiveless resistance to instructions or attempts to be moved
Extreme Negativism
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Disordered tonicity of muscles
Dystonia
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False belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost everyone else believes and despite what constitutes inconvertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary
Delusion
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Delusions that the person (or someone to whom individual is close to) is being malovently treated in some way
Persecutory
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Delusion that person has some physical defect or general medical condition
Somatic
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Delusions characteristic of more than one of different types but no one theme predominates
Unspecified
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Mood in "normal" range which implies absence of depressed or elevated mood
Euthymic
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Lack of restraint in expressing one's feelings, frequently with an overvaluation of one's significance or importance
Expansive
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Oriented to self only
0x1
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Oriented to self and location
0x2
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Oriented to self, location and time
0x3
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CBS: A dissociative episode characteried by period of brooding followed by outburst of violent, aggressive, or homicidal behavior directed at people and objects.
Amok
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CBS: Idiom of distress (Latinos)
Ataque de nervios
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CBS: Syndromes whose cause is thought to be strongly experienced anger or rage
Bilis/Colera/Muina
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CBS: Sudden outburst of agitated and aggressive behavior, marked confusion and psychomotor excitement
Boufee Delirante
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CBS: Condition experienced by students like difficulties concentrating, remembering and thinking
Brain fag
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CBS: Severe anxiety and hypochondrial cenerns associated with the discharge of semen, whitish discoloration of urine and feelings of weakness and exhaustion
Dhat
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CBS: sudden collapse preceded by dizziness
Falling-Out/Blacking Out
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CBS: Preoccupation with death and the deceased
Ghost Sickness
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CBS: Anger syndrome attributed to suppression of anger
Hwa-Byung
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CBS: Episode of sudden and intense anxiety that penis will recede into body and possibly cause death
Koro
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CBS: Hypersensitivity to sudden fright, often with echopraxia, echolalia, command obedience
Latah
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CBS: Severe form of chronic psychosis
Locura
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CBS: "Evil eye" in children (fitful sleep, crying, fever)
Mal de ojo
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CBS: general state of vulnerability to stressful life experiences and syndrome brought on by difficult life experiences
Nervios
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CBS: abrupt dissociative episode accompanied by extreme excitement of up to 30 mintues and frequently followed by convulsive seizures and comas lasting up to 12 hours
Piploktoq
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CBS: acute, time-limited episode characterized by dissociative, paranoid, or other symptoms after participation in qi-going (exercise of vital energy)
Qi-gong Psychotic Reaction
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CBS: set of cultural interpretations that ascribe illness to hexing and witchcraft
Rootwork
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CBS: pain, numbness, tremor, paralysis, convulsions, stroke, blindness, etc.
Sangue Dormido
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CBS: condition characterized by physical and mental fatigue, dizziness, headaches (China)
Shenjing Shuairuo
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CBS: Korean folk label for syndrome in which inital phases characterized by anxiety and somatic complaints
Shin-byung
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CBS: trance state in which individuals communicate with deceased relatives or with spirits
Spell
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CBS: Latino illness attributed to frightening event that causes soul to leave body and results in unhapiness and sickness
Susto
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CBS: Japanese syndrome which refers to an individual's intense fear that his or her body displease or are offensive to other people
Taijin Kyofusho
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CBS: experience of spirits possessing an individual
Zar
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