518 Definitions

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease

Decreased intelligibility of speech, may be due to side effects of psychotropic medication

Deficiency in content of speech compared to what level of information is normally expected

Interruption of train of speech before completion

Speech that is highly detailed and very delayed at reaching its goal

Sounds, rather than meaningful relationships, appear to govern words or topics

Ideas slip off the topic's track on to another which is obliquely related or unrelated

During mid speech, the subject is changed in response to a stimulus

Echoing of one's or other people's speech that may only be committed once, or may be continuous in repetition

Attempts to express ideas and/or feelings about another individual come out as evasive or in a diluted form

A sequence of loose associations or extreme tangentiality where the speaker goes quickly from one idea to another seemingly unrelated idea

Speech that is unintelligible because, though the individual words are real words, the manner in which they are strung together results in incoherent gibberish

New word formations

Persistent repetition of words or ideas

An increase in the amount of spontaneous speech compared to what is considered customary

Replying to questions in an oblique, tangential or irrelevant manner

Inability to express a set of well-structured, logically related ideas

Inability to identify an object by touch without visual input

Observable behavior representing one's emotions

State of unstable emotions

Eager and exuberant mood regardless of the environmental reality

Awareness of time, place, and person

Involuntary movements of the tongue, face, lips, trunk, and extremities

Result of internal and external stimuli that evoke intense and patterned activation of autonomic nervous system

Planned, purposeful, goal directed violence

Patient would rather not be alive, but does not indicate plan that involves act of initation

Patient has acute thoughts of completing suicide

Sex (male)
Age (adolescent or elderly)
Depression
Previous Attempt
Ethanol Abuse
Rational Thinking Loss (psychosis)
Social Supports Lacking
Organized Plan
No Spouse/Partner
Sickness

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

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

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)

Designation of alternative decision maker for financial affairs

Defines response and responsibilities when abuse is reported for persons in care or receiving support services by publicly funded agencies

Means by which an individual can request access to their medical information

Governs how individuals can access and correct their information and how agencies can store and use private information

Inability to feel pleasure

Anxiety about being in places or situations where it is difficult to escape and may be embarrassing

Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses or images that are intrusive and cause marked anxiety

Repetitive behaviors or mental acts designed to prevent or reduce stress or prevent a dreaded event or situation

Complex array of biological, intrapsychic and interpersonal factors that create/maintain mental dysfunction

Employ ideas and techniques from variety of perspectives to understand and effectively treat client's problems

Experiencing world from client's perspective

Lobe of brain where higher mental functions occur (thinking & planning)

Lobe of brain where processes information about pain, pressure, body temperature

Lobe of brain that involves memory, perception, language processing

Lobe of brain where visual processing occurs

Expected rules in inpatient settings

Subjective experience of individual

Deficit in ability to perform tasks

Result of process of elimination in which disorder is identified by meeting specific criteria

Higher intellectual functions of abstraction, reasoning, judgment, and analysis

Ability to connect mental processes with current actions (planning, organizing)

Deep seated beleifs not based in reality

Specific and unwanted thought that is typically unwanted and can't be eliminated by reasoning

Extremely literal verbal responses

Ideas shift from one subject to something completely unrelated

Person digresses giving unnecessary, irrelevent information

Person starts answering but rapidly digresses

Inability to plan and coordinate complex motor actions

Perceptual images experienced as sensations but not based on stimulation from external environment

Milder form of perceptual distortion where outside object is real but person misinterprets

Lack of observable emotion

State of unstable emotions

Automatic sequence of behaviors (conditioned responses)

Memory specific to consciously learned facts

Using meaning of words and ability to classify information or ideas

Knowledge of personal experiences

Remembering to carry out actions in future

Unknowing fabrication of events to fill in gaps of true memory

Schizophrenia: focused on negative symptoms that are enduring and not attributable to other sources

Schizophrenia: prominant positive symptoms and more severe mood symptoms

General lack of drive, or motivation to pursue meaningful goals

Decreased enjoyment

Inability to remain motionless

Inability to initiate movement

Include extreme restlessness, involuntary movements, and uncontrollable speech. Often associated with atypical antipsychotic medication. Reversible

Any time where client feels abnormally happy or sad

Milder form of bipolar that lasts longer

Milder form of major depressive episode but lasts longer

One or more periods of depression (no necessary mania)

One or more manic episodes (with history of at least 1 major depressive episode)

Elevated mood last at least 4 days

Criteria for both manic and depressive met everyday for at least 1 week

Pattern of illness due to abnormal mood

Dominant manic mood

Dominant depressed mood

Descriptors that help qualify disorders or episodes 

Eat and sleep a lot, extremely sensitive to rejection

Loss of appetite, guilt, feel slow, or agitated

Extreme motor hyperactivity or extreme inactivity

Manic or depressed within 1 month of giving birth

At least 4 episodes within 1 year

Become ill regularly at same time each year

Anxiety that clearly affects and hinders daily function and is no longer servicable

Unpleasant emotional, cognitive, behavioural, or physical experiences of stress

Enduring personality style that manifests persistent anxiety

Time limited anxiety that diminishes with problem resolution

Predictive anciety in response to future actual or imagined situations

Persists, developed around new stressors after immediate problems are resolved

Generalized anxiety which may be vague in origin

Limited period of intense fear or distress

Avoidance of, or suffering through, situations where might be difficult to leave or embarrassed to have panic attack

Recurrent or illogical and excessive fear and anxiety from expectation of or actual encounter with stimulus, object or situation

Excessive fears of potentially humiliating social or performance situations where there is anticipation of examination or judgement 

Recurrent obsessions and compulsions that cause distress and anxiety

Overwhelming traumatic event that impacts daily functioning

Similar to PTSD but symptoms develop within 1 month and least 2 days-1 month

Persistent, uncontrollable and excessive anxiety or worry

Physiological effect of drug, medication, or toxin

Mental state of being aware of one's sensations, thoughts, bodily states, consciousness and environment while also being accepting, open and curious

Focus on real encounters with anxiety producing objects and using variety of techniques to master situation

Incremental exposure to anxiety producing stimulus

Treatment in which evoke fear in controlled setting

Relax mind and body through verbal commands

Baby shoes no preference for 1 attachment figure - indiscriminate in attention seeking

Baby distinguishes between caregivers and prefers 1 figure

Baby becomes more active in seeking physical proximity and social contact with caregiver and begins to develop IWMs or representations

Baby shows evidence of behaviors that signal goal directed partnership 

Representations of past interactions and allow predicting future experience

Early stress and developmental trauma in form of attachment disruptions caused by toxic parenting or separation influences hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system

Unable to form attachments (inhibited) or forms attachments with everyone (disinhibited)

Failure to provide for basic safety and welfare

Deliberate destruction or alteration of on'es body tissues without conscious suicidal intent

Acute confusional state accompanied by agitation with quick onset and fluctuating levels of alertness

Limited ability to express emotions and feelings

Cognitive impairments of persons with frontal lobe damage that inhibits them from recognizing deficits in cognition, perception, or mobility

Loss of control of body movements

Belief that spouse is unfaithful

Feelings of unreality

Involuntary movements similar to tics

Sustained feelings of success, confidence and well-being

Unrealistic sense of superiority

Inability, of which person may be unaware, to sustain concentration or attention

Emotional state that usually colors one's whole psychological treatment

Absent or decreased emotional and behavioral repertoire (flat affect, alogia, avolition, anhedonia, or hypohedonia)

Active symptoms of psychotic disorders, including delusions and hallucinations as well as disorganized speech and behavior

Significant impairment of reality testing and daily functioning due to the presence of positive symptoms

Physical affect on body

Distinguishing characteristcs of one's personal nature

Delusions that another person, usually of higher status is in love with self

Inflated appraisal of one's worth, power, knowledge, importance or identity

Feeling that causal incidents and external events have a particular and unusual meaning specific to person

False perceptions that occur when waking

Significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expression

None or nearly no emotional expression

Loss of memory

Impaired ability to learn new information or recall previously learned information

Failure to recognize or identify objects despite intact sensory function

Impaired ability to carry out motor activities despite intact motor function

Language disturbance

Alteration in perception or experience of external world so that it seems strange or unreal

Apparent motiveless resistance to instructions or attempts to be moved

Disordered tonicity of muscles

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

Delusions that the person (or someone to whom individual is close to) is being malovently treated in some way

Delusion that person has some physical defect or general medical condition

Delusions characteristic of more than one of different types but no one theme predominates

Mood in "normal" range which implies absence of depressed or elevated mood

Lack of restraint in expressing one's feelings, frequently with an overvaluation of one's significance or importance

Oriented to self only

Oriented to self and location

Oriented to self, location and time

CBS: A dissociative episode characteried by period of brooding followed by outburst of violent, aggressive, or homicidal behavior directed at people and objects.

CBS: Idiom of distress (Latinos)

CBS: Syndromes whose cause is thought to be strongly experienced anger or rage

CBS: Sudden outburst of agitated and aggressive behavior, marked confusion and psychomotor excitement

CBS: Condition experienced by students like difficulties concentrating, remembering and thinking

CBS: Severe anxiety and hypochondrial cenerns associated with the discharge of semen, whitish discoloration of urine and feelings of weakness and exhaustion

CBS: sudden collapse preceded by dizziness

CBS: Preoccupation with death and the deceased

CBS: Anger syndrome attributed to suppression of anger

CBS: Episode of sudden and intense anxiety that penis will recede into body and possibly cause death

CBS: Hypersensitivity to sudden fright, often with echopraxia, echolalia, command obedience

CBS: Severe form of chronic psychosis

CBS: "Evil eye" in children (fitful sleep, crying, fever)

CBS: general state of vulnerability to stressful life experiences and syndrome brought on by difficult life experiences

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

CBS: acute, time-limited episode characterized by dissociative, paranoid, or other symptoms after participation in qi-going (exercise of vital energy)

CBS: set of cultural interpretations that ascribe illness to hexing and witchcraft

CBS: pain, numbness, tremor, paralysis, convulsions, stroke, blindness, etc.

CBS: condition characterized by physical and mental fatigue, dizziness, headaches (China)

CBS: Korean folk label for syndrome in which inital phases characterized by anxiety and somatic complaints

CBS: trance state in which individuals communicate with deceased relatives or with spirits

CBS: Latino illness attributed to frightening event that causes soul to leave body and results in unhapiness and sickness

CBS: Japanese syndrome which refers to an individual's intense fear that his or her body displease or are offensive to other people

CBS: experience of spirits possessing an individual