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71 Cards in this Set
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Compensation
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Covering up a weakness by emphasizing a desirable trait
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Denial
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Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a situation or the associated feelings
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Displacement
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The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is less threatening
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Identification
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An attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring attributes of an individual that one admires
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Intellectualization
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An attempt to avoid expressing emotions associated with a stressful situation by using logic, reasoning, and analysis
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Introjection
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Integrating the beliefs and values of another individual into one's own ego structure
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Isolation
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Separating a thought or memory from the feelings associated with it
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Projection
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Attributing feelings unacceptable to one's self to another person
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Rationalization
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Attempting to make excuses or logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors
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Reaction Formation
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Preventing unacceptable thoughts from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or behaviors
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Regression
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Responding to stress by retreating to an earlier developmental level
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Repression
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Involuntary blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences
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Sublimation
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Rechanneling of drives that unacceptable into activities that are constructive
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Suppression
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The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness
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Undoing
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Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that one finds intolerable
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Axis I
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Clinical disorders
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Axis II
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Personality disorders and MR
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Axis III
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General Medical Conditions
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Axis IV
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Psychosocial and Environmental problems
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Axis V
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Global Assessment of functioning (GAF)
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Hans Selye
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Defined general adaptation syndrome (Fight or Flight syndrome)
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Psychosis
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delusions; hallucinations;
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Tarasoff Law
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Duty to warn people at risk of being harmed by a patient
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Anhedonia
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Inability to experience pleasure from enjoyable activities
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When are clients with depression/Bipolar at greatest risk for suicide?
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Between bipolar phases
When depression has been alleviated. |
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MAOI's - interactions
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Tyramine - aged cheese, cured meats, chocolate
Several other medications |
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MAOI's - after discontinuing a medication how much time is needed before MAOI's are given?
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2 Weeks for the body to get a previous medication out of the system before MAOI"S are given.
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Lithium - theraputic levels?
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0.5-1.5
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Sullivan
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Developed theory of mother child bonding
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Wolpe
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Coined the term desensitization
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Personality Disorders - Definition
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Character flaws that are learned very early in life and have a poor prognosis
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Oppositional Defiant
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Disregard to rules, acting out
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Conductive Disorder
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disregard to other people, hurt people or animals
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Borderline personality
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intense and chaotic relationships, with affective instability, self-destructive behavior.
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Affect
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the behavioral expression of emotion
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agranulocytosis
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Extremely low levels of white blood cells
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amnesia
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inability to recall information
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amnesia, continuous
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inability to recall events occurring after a specific time up to the present
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amnesia, generalized
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inability to recall anything that has happened during the individual's entire lifetime
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amnesia, selective
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inability to recall only certain incidents associated with a traumatic event
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amnesia, systematized
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inability to recall events that relate to a specif category of information
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Antisocial personality disorder
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A pattern of socially irresponsible, exploitative, & Guiltless behavior
fail to conform to law, develop stable relationships, sustain consistent employment |
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Anxiety
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Vague diffuse apprehension associated with feelings of uncertainty and helplessness
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Autism
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focus inward on a fantasy world while distorting/excluding external invironment
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bereavement overload
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accumulation of grief that occurs when an individual experiences many losses over a short period of time
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catatonia
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type of schizophrenia that is typified by stupor or excitement.
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Cycle of Battering
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1. Tension Building phase
2. The acute battering incident 3. The Calm, loving respite (honeymoon) |
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Deinstitutionalization
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the removal of the mentally ill from institutions and into the community
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DSM-IV-TR
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Standard nomenclature of emotional illness
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disulfiram
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anti-alcoholic drug that causes discomfort of taken with alcohol
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ECT
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Electroconvulsive therapy - induces grand mal seizures. used with severely depressed patients
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fugue
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travel away from home with assumption of a new identity and inability to recall one's previous identity
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generalized anxiety disorder
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chronic, excessive anxiety and worry
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histrionic personality disorder
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overly dramatic behavior for the purpose of drawing attention to oneself
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hypochondriasis
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unrealistic preoccupation with fear of having a serious illness
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hypomania
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mild form of mania. excessive hyperactivity but doesn't cause marked impairment
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Korsakoff's psychosis
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confusion, loss of recent memory and cofabulation in alcoholics.
Caused by thiamine deficiency |
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Limbic system
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part of brain responsible for emotions
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Milieu Therapy
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Therapy of structuring the environment in order to effect behavioral changes
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Narcissistic personality disorder
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Exaggerated sense of self-worth.
Lacks empathy and is hypersensitive to others' evaluations |
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Nerotic disorder
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excessive anxiety/depression, disturbed bodily function, unsatisfying relationships
No loss of reality |
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obsessive compulsive disorder
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recurrent obsessions and compulsions
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psychotic disorder
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gross disorganization of the personality, disturbance in reality testing, impairment of interpersonal functioning
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religiosity
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excessive demonstration of religious ideas and behavior; common in schizophrenia
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schizoid personality disorder
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profound defect in ability to form personal relationships or respond to others in any meaningful, emotional way
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schizotypal personality disorder
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odd and eccentric behavior, not decompensating to the lvl of schizophrenia
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somatization
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a method of coping with psychosocial stress by developing physical symptoms
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tardive dyskinesia
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bizarre facial/tongue movements, a stiff neck, difficulty swallowing.
Adverse effect of long-term antipsychotic medications |
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Clozaril - Adverse effect
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agranulocytosis
Must have signed waiver before beginning treatment |
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antipsychotics agents - drugs used to suppress EPS?
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Cogentin
Artain Benadryl |
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Joseph Wolpe
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Coined the term desensitization
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