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Question | Answer |
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Mental Illness | Clinically significant behavior syndrome marked by distress, disability, or the risk of suffering disability or loss of fr |
DSM IV TR | Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders that classifies mental disorders |
Freud's psychoanalitical theory | theory of personality structure, levels of awareness, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual development |
Defense Mechanism | developed by the ego to ward off anxiety |
Psychotherapy | therapy orientated to here and now to assist a client to uncover unconscious issues and improve coping skills |
milieu therapy | provides a safe structure and amotional climate to facilitate healing |
Cognitive therapy | a structured approach which addresses how the client thinks about the world and their place in it. |
ethics | belief in what is right or wrong |
bioethics | used in ethical dilemmas in health or psychiatric care |
psychiatric civil rights | the right to humane care and treatment |
involuntary admission | also known as commitment, made without clients consent |
Tort | a civil wrong against a person where money damages moy be collected |
assoult | an act where a person is apprehensive of harm to himself |
battery | harmful or offensive touching of a person |
negligence | an act of omission what breeches duty of care that injures the client |
Standards of care | professional standards of practive determined by professional accociations |
informed consent | clients must be informed of the nature of the proposed treatment and the risks associated with it |
right to privacy | protecting trhe clients confidenciality and not releasing personal info without clients consent |
right to refuse treatment | client may refuse treatment or withdraw consent |
FALSE IMPRISONMENT | CONFINING A PERSON TO A SPECIFIC AREA WITHOUT HIS CONSENT |
Stress | a change in the environment that produsces feelings that impact ones well being |
anxiety | an imminent loss or chage that threatens ones sense of security |
depression | CONDITION where one feels sad or hopeless that may be created from stress or illness |
behavioral therapy | techniques that decrease anxiety or avoidant behavior |
anxiety disorder | those behaviors that produce anxiety that interferes with personal, occupational or social functioning |
obsessions | persistent thoughts, impulses or images that cannot be dissmissed from the mind |
panic attack | sudden onset of extreme apprehension or fear |
compulsions | ritualistic behaviors on performs to decrease anxiety |
phobia | fear of specific objects, activity, or situation that leads to avoidance |
social phobia | severe anxiety while being exposed to a social situation |
PTSD |