| A | B |
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| Affect | Outward behaviors including but not limited to facial expression and vocal modulation which express emotions |
| Affective lability | rapid change from one emotion to the next. Rapid as in minutes. |
| alogia | Poverty of thinking evidenced either by poverty of speech or by poverty of content of speech. |
| anhedonia | lack of enjoyment of life activities |
| Areas of Affective symptoms | Anxiety Depression Euphoria Anger |
| Auditory hallucinations | When person perceives they are hearing voices which do not reflect reality |
| avolition | Absence of initiative or motivation to begin and maintain behavior in pursuit of a goal |
| Axis one | Clinical Disorders |
| Axis two | Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation |
| Axis three | Medical Conditions |
| Axis four | Psychosocial and Environmental Factors |
| Axis five | Global Assessment of Functioning Score |
| Bipolar one disorder | Diagnosis of this Bipolar Disorder requires at least one Manic or Mixed episode but there may be episodes of Hypomania or Major Depression as well |
| Bipolar two Disorder | Diagnosis of this Bipolar Disorder requires neither a Manic nor a Mixed Episode but does require at least one episode of hypomania in addition to an episode of Major Depression. |
| Bipolar disorder | characterized by dramatic mood swings or episodes of Mania Hypomania or Major Depression. |
| Blunted Affect | Range of affective expression is markedly reduced but not absent. |
| catatonia | excitement consists of driven excited excessive but purposeless movement. At the other extreme catatonic patients may appear stuporous with a rigidly held posture usually remaining mute and unresponsive |
| Command hallucination | Psychotic individuals sometime describe hallucinations of voices commanding them to engage in specific activity. |
| Cooccuring Disorder | When multiple diagnosis are present for an individual. |
| Course | Syndrom varies among individuals in terms of onset trajectory and severity |
| Cyclothymic Disorder | Diagnosis of this Bipolar Disorder requires a history of numerous hypomanic Episodes intermingled with numerous episodes of depression that do not meet the criteria for Major Depressive Episodes |
| Delusion | Commonly defined in behavioral health care as a fixed false belief excluding beliefs that are part of a religious movement this psychotic symptom is present in a variety of serious mental disorders. |
| Delusion of Grandeur | Delusional beliefs of possessing exaggerated power importance knowledge or ability |
| Delusions | Eronious beliefs having to do with self inflation religious persecutory somatic or referential in content |
| Derailment | Disordered thought in which the idea changes spontaneously to another idea that is unrelated or only distantly related. |
| Diagnosis | The collections of symptoms and dysfunctions that cohere to form a meaningful psychiatric syndrome |
| Disability | An illness that keeps a person from meeting life goals that are age and culturally appropriate |
| disfunctions | represent absence of normal functioning for age and culture |
| Disorganized speech | Syntax and Semantics that govern the meaning of spoken content are absent resulting in content being nonsensical. |
| DSM | Diagnostical Statistical Manual |
| dysphoria | Unpleasant mental and emotional state especially mood associated with a variety of mental disorders |
| Dysthymia | The condition of persistent dysphoria or mild mood depression |
| Euphoria | A mood state characterized by an exaggerated superficial sense of well being |
| Euthymia | Normal mood. The absence of mood elevation hyperthymia or mania or depression hypothymia or dysthymia. |
| Flat Affect | Complete or nearly complete absence of affective expression |
| Flight o fIdeas | Like derailment this form of disordered thought suggests leaps from idea to unrelated idea but perhaps with greater number and rapidity |
| Formal Thought Disorder | Disturbance of form of thought with or without disturbance of thought content |
| GAF Score | Score represents distress and impaired function due to psychiatric illness |
| Grandiosity | Inflated self-esteem or self-worth usually manifested as content of thinking or talk with themes reflecting the patient's belief that he or she is the greatest or has special attributes or abilities |
| hallucination | This psychotic symptom found in a variety of serious mental disorders involves sensory perceptual distortions for example seeingvisual hearing auditory smelling olfactory feeling haptic tactile or tasting gustatory sensations that others would not sense and do not exist outside one's perception |
| Stigma | The discrediting mark of one group that results in another group stealong some rights or privileges that correspond with humanity |
| Public Stigma | Influences people in posititions of power to keep from extending various opportunities to a certain group |
| Self Stigma | When a person internalizes the discrediting mark given by the power group resulting in undermining self esteem |
| Stereotype | knowledge structures that are learned by most members of a social group and collectively agreed upon by the larger society |
| Prejudice | When a person endorses or agrees with a stereotype about a grouup of people and develops feelings and thoughts in response |
| Discrimination | The result of adopting sterotyping and prejudices and putting the affective responses into action against the group stereotyped. |
| Labeling Theory | States that society will react to a label and treat people a certain way because of the label. As a result, those labeled will behave according to how they are treated. |
| Criminalization of Mental Illness | the result of people with mental illness being incarcerated rather than receiving services from the mental health system |
| Empowerment | Fostering control over one's life choices and goals in areas such as choice of treatment, housing, and social interactions. |
| Psychiatric Rehabilitation | Systematic efforts to help adults with psychiatric disabilities move forward in their recovery process. |
| Self Determination | The act or power of making up one's own mind about what to think or do, without outside influence or compulsion. |
| Consumer Preference | Goals and decisions are made by consumer. Based on the belief that if given information, the consumer will select the given program for self. |
| Situational Assessment | Assessment of the consumer in the role being assessed. |
| Real Life Training | Training that takes place in environment where skills will be needed. |
| Real World Focus | Programs provide opportunities for consumers to experience real world rather than the asylum concept |
| Environmental Modifications | Select interventions that maximize success not maximize the worker's perceived needed change |
| Strengths Focus | Focusing on the consumer's unique capabilities and potential that provides foundation for reaching goals. |
| Moral Treatment Era | Era from 1800-1850 focusing on keeping patients safe in hospitals with humane restorative treatment |
| Mental Hygiene Era | Era from 1890- 1920 with focus on scientific understanding of mental illness in hospitals as well as prevention |
| Community Mental Health Era | Era from 1955 - 1970 with focus on deinstitutionalization and treatment in the community |
| Community Support Era | Era from 1975 to present where community support programs began and treatment was seen as a social welfare problem rather than an illness |
| Psychosocial Rehabilitation Era | Era from 1960-1990 in which limitations of the medical model were seen and strenngths of rehabilitation model were seen |
| Consumer Movement | Era from 1990-present where Recovery began to be adopted by consumers moving outside the "system" forcing the system to adopt the recovery model |
| Evidence-based practice | Era from 1898 to present where professionals began to evaluate what worked and did not forcing accountablitily of services. |
