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Conditions-CH.5
Conditions in OT (4th ed.) - Atchison & Dirette - CH.5_terms
Question | Answer |
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Algorithms | a step by step approach based upon controlled clinical trials |
Anhedonia | lack of interest in previously pleasurable |
Catatonia | extreme psychomotor agitation or retardation |
Cyclothymic disorder | represents a chronic (at least 2yrs), but less severe mood disturbance involving both hypomanic behaviors and depressive symptoms that do not meet criteria for either a manic or major depressive episode (disorder presents itself as a mild form of bipolar |
Dysthymic disorder | characterized by insidious onset frequently beginning in childhood, a persistent or intermittent course, and ongoing feelings of depression over a period of at least 2 yrs. |
Euthymia | normal range of mood |
Flight of ideas | accelerated speech with rapid changes in subject. Associations are understandable unlike the lack of connections that are associated with looseness of associations. |
Mental disorder | a clinically significant behavioral or psych syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual & that's associated w/ present distress or disability or with significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom |
Psychomotor agitation | increased physical movements that are purposeless and reflective of an agitated or anxious state, that is, writhing hands, fidgeting, pacing |
Psychomotor retardation | abnormally slowed or reduced movements or speech |
Psychosis | the presence of delusions or hallucinations without insight |
Rapid-cycling | four or more episodes of some type of mood disturbance within the past year episodes meet criteria for mania, hypomania, mixed, or depressed episodes as identified in DSM IV-TR |
Unipolar | refers to the syndrome that consists only of major depressive episodes without manic episodes |
Affect | the display of emotion, particularly facial expression |
Avolition | lack of drive or ambition to complete goal-directed tasks or activities |
Cyclothymia | characterized by a chronic course of hypomania and mild depression, this disorder presents as a mild form of bipolar disorder (BPD) |
Dysphoria | a depressed or negative mood state |
Euphoria | highly elevated, exaggerated mood |
Grandiosity | inflated sense of self-esteem or importance |
Hypomanic episode | an episode of elevated mood that is less intense that full mania |
Major depressive episode | a period of depressed or irritable mood lasting at least 2 weeks, resulting in severe impairments in functioning |
Mania | an extremely elevated mood |
Manic episode | a highly elevated or irritable mood lasting at least 1 week, with or without psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. |
Mixed episode | the presence of both manic and major depressive symptoms almost daily for at least 1 week, resulting in rapid mood cycling with or without psychotic symptoms |
Prodromal | the period of time when symptoms begin to emerge, which can range from weeks or months to years before the full onset of symptoms |