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Chapter 26 Vocab
Chapter 26 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Agitated Delirum | acute change in mental status, agitation-aggression |
Anxiety | A state of painful uneasiness often characterized by agitation and restlessness |
Behavior | a way a person acts or performs |
Behavior Emergency | a situation in which a person exerts abnormal behavior |
Bipolar Disorder | a psychiatric condition characterized by the alteration of moods |
Depression | A feeling of sadness, worthlessness |
Dystonia | A movement disorder that causes involunteer, contraction of the muscles |
Humane Restraints | padded soft leather or cloth wraps to hold a patient down |
Paranoia | Highly exaggerated or unwarranted mistrust |
Phobia | The fear of something |
Phsychosis | a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality |
Reasonable Force | The minimum amounts of force to hold a patient still |
Schizophrenia | A chronic illness in which the patients distortions of speech and thought |
Suicide | A willful act designed to ends ones life |
tardive dyskinesia ????sp | A movement disorder that causes involuntary movement of the mouth and tongue. |