Lcsw Technical Terms

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blunted affect

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significant reduction in intensity of emotional expression

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flat affect

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absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression

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inappropriate affect

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discordance between affective expression and the content of speech or ideation

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labile affect

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abnormal variability in affect wiht repeated, rapid, abrupt shifts in affective expression

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restricted/constructed affect

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mild reduction in range and intensity of emotional expression

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affect vs. mood

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affect refers to fluctuating changes in emotional weather, while mood refers to more pervasive and sustained emotional climate

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agonist medication

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chemical extrinsic to endogenously produced substances that acts on a receptor and is capable of producing maximal effect that can be produced by stimulating that receptor

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partial agonist

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capable only of producing a less than the maximal effect even when given in concetration sufficient to bind with all available receptors

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antagonist

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chemical extrinsic to endogenously produced substances that occupies a receptor, produces no physiologic effects, and prevents endo and exgenous chemicals from producing effect on receptor

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alogia

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impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior. (poverty of speech or content)

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anterograde amnesia

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loss of memory of events that occur after the onset of the etiological condition or agent

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retrograde amnesia

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loss of memory of events tat occurred before onset of etiological condition or agent

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aphasia

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impairment in understanding or transmission of ideas by langage in any of its forms that is due to injury or disease

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aphonia

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inability to produce speech sounds that require the use of the larynx that is not due to a lesion in the cns

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ataxia

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partial or complete losss of coordination of voluntary muscular movement

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avolition

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inability to initiate and persist in goal directed activites

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catalepsy

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waxy flexibility - rigid maintenance of a body position over and extended period of time

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cataplexy

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episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone resulting in the individual collapsing, often in association with intense emotions such as laughter, anger, fear, or surprise

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conversion symptom

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loss of/alteration in voluntary motor or sensory function suggesting a neurological or general medical condition

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bizarre delusion

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delusion involving a phenomenon that the person's culture would regard as totally implausible

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delusional jealousy

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delusion that one's sexual partner is unfaithful

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erotomanic

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delusion that another person, usually of higher status, is in love with the individual

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grandiose delusion

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delusion of inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person

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delusion of reference

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delusion whose theme is that events, objects, or other persons in one's immediate environment have a particular and unusual significance

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persecutory delusion

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central theme is that one or someone close to one is being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted, or conspired against

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somatic delusion

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delusion whose main content pertains to the appearance or functioning of one's body

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thought broadcasting

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the delusion that one's thoughts are being broadcast out loud so that they can be perceived by others

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thought insertion delusion

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the delusion that certain of one's thoughts are not one's own, but rather are inserted into one's mind

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depersonalization

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an alteration in the perception or experience of the self so that one feels detached from, and as if one is an outside observer of, one's mental processes or body

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derailment

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loosening of associations, pattern of speech in which one's ideas slip off one track onto another that is completely unrelated - disturbance occurs between clauses

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derealization

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

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disorientation

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confusion about the time of day, date, season, identity, location

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dissociation

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disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness memory, id, perception of the environment, may be gradual, transient, or chronic

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distractibility

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inability to maintain attention, that is, the shifting from one area or topic to another with minimal provocation, or attention being drawn to frequently to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli

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dysarthria

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imperfect articulation of speech due to disturbances of muscular control

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dyskinesia

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distortion o voluntary movements with involuntary muscular activity