| A | B |
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| crisis | a perception or exprience of an event or situation as an intolerable difficulty that exceeds th person's current resources and coping mechanisms |
| equilibrium | a state of mental or emotional stability, balance, or poise in the organism |
| disequilibrium | lack or destruction of emotional stability, balance, or poise in the organism |
| mobility | a state of physical being whereby the person can autonomously change or cope in response to different stimuli |
| immobility | a state of physical being whereby the person is not immediately capable of autonomously changing or coping in response to different stimuli |
| transcrisis state | original crisis is past but new stressors bring the individual to the crisis state again |
| lethality | danger, threat to self or others |
| dissociation | adaptive, coping mechanism utilized in traumatic circumstances; ranges from "numbing out" to complete amnesia |
| intimate terrorism | violence or threat of violence is used to break the victim's resistance and bend her to will of the batterer |
| acute | short-term, immediate situational crisis |
| chronic | recurring, crisis "lifestyle" |
| addiction | a cellular change that occurs with the increased use of most depressant drugs; the compulsion to use drugs regardless of the negative consequences |
| displacement | venting of hostility on a person or object, neither of which deserves it |
| projection | attributing motives within oneself to others |
| codependent | any significant person in the chemical dependent's life |
| dual diagnosis | chemically dependent clients who also have underlying mental health problems |
| bereavement | an objective state or condition of depreivation that is especially caused by death |
| grief | a psychic state or condition of mental anguish or emotional suffering and a result or anticipation of bereavement |
| mourning | a social or cultural state or condition expressing the grief or feeling caused by bereavement |
| burnout | internal pssychological exprience involving feelings, attitudes, motives and expectations |
