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Mental Health Medical Terminology
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Mental Health Medical Terminology
Mental Health Medical Terminology
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Acrocyanosis
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Bluish or purple coloring of hands and feet caused by slow blood circulation
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Agnosia
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Inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain damage
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Anomia
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A problem with word finding. Impaired recall of words with no impairment of comprehension or the capacity to repeat the words
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Aphasia
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Deterioration of language functions
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Apraxia
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Loss of ability to perform purposeful activities despite intact motor abilities
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Amnestic Disorder
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A disturbance in memory due to general medical conditions or substance effects
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Anorexia
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Lack or loss of appetite
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Anorexia nervosa
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An emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat
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Assertiveness
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A response that seeks to maintain an appropriate balance between passivity and aggression
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Alzheimer's disease
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An irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks.
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Biofeedback
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Designed to help the sufferer recognize when they are not relaxed
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Bulimia nervosa
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An eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating at least twice a week for 3 months.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
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CBT challenges sufferers to rethink their beliefs and behaviors in order to bring about positive change.
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Confabulation
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Filling up gaps of memories
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Cortisol
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Body's main stress hormone and serve a as nature's built-in alarm system.
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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A degenerative brain disorder that leads to dementia and, ultimately, death
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Decatastrophizing
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Techniques that involves learning to assess situations realistically rather than assuming a catastrophe will happen
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Delirium
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A disturbance of consciousness and cognitive abilities that develops rapidly over a short period of time
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Dementia
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A cognitive deficits primarily memory impairment that develops gradually
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Distraction
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Rechanneling client’s attention and energy to a more neutral topic.
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Echolalia
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Meaningless repetition of another person's spoken words as a symptom of psychiatric disorder.
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Ego syntonic
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Refers to instincts or ideas that are acceptable to the self; that are compatible with one's values and ways of thinking
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Ego-dystonic
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Refers to thoughts, impulses, and behaviors that are felt to be repugnant, distressing, unacceptable or inconsistent with one's self-concept
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Executive function
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Self-regulated skills of the mental processes that enable a person to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks.
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Going along
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Providing emotional reassurance to clients without correcting their misperception or delusion
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Huntington's disease
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A rare, inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown (degeneration) of nerve cells in the brain
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Korsakoff Syndrome
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An alcohol induced amnestic disorder that results from a chronic thiamine or Vit. B deficiency
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Neurocognitive disorders
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A general term that describes decreased mental function due to a medical disease other than a psychiatric illness
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Orthorexia nervosa
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Obsession with eating only “clean, healthy, pure” foods to achieve “ideal” health.
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Parkinson's disease
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A progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement.