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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 1 | Clinical Disorders |
| Axis II | Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation |
| Axis III | Medical Conditions |
| Axis IV | Psychosocial and Environmental Factors |
| Axis V | Global Assessment of Functioning Score |
| Bipolar 1 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 I IDisorder | 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. |
| Co-occurring Disorder | When multiple diagnosis are present for an individual. |
| Course | Syndrome 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 | Erroneous 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 |
| dysfunctions | 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 of Ideas | 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 seeing (visual), hearing (auditory), smelling (olfactory), feeling (haptic, tactile), or tasting (gustatory) sensations that others would not sense and do not exist outside one's perception |
| Hypomania | a mood state which like mania is characterized by persistent and pervasive elated or irritable mood, and behaviors and thoughts that are consistent with such a mood state. It is distinguished from mania by the absence of psychotic symptoms and less impact of functioning. |
| Impoverished Thoughts | When a person is unable to generated ideas in response to situations and conversations. |
| inappropriate Affect | When affect or mood does not reflect the particular situation |
| Incongruent Affect | When nonverbal expressions do not reflect content of persons speech |
| Labile Affect | Rapidly and easily changing affective expression. |
| Major Depression | When an individual experiences a discrete episode of persistent and pervasive emotional depression, this term may be applied. |
| Mania | may be thought of loosely as the opposite of depression. It is characterized by elated, euphoric or irritable mood and increased energy. The term may refer to a mental disorder or to a mood state or symptom and is associated with Bipolar Disorder |
| Mixed Episode | When an individual experiences a discrete period during which characteristics of both major depressive and manic episodes are evident. |
| Mood | may refer to the feeling tone of the subject observed during a psychiatric examination or to the emotional state experienced by an individual for a limited period of time |
| Mood disorder | persistent or episodic exaggeration of mood state |
| Negative Symptoms | These symptoms involve the absence of normal behaviors. They include affective flattening, alogia, apathy, avolition and social withdrawal |
| Paranoia | A paranoid individual lives in a state or attitude of suspicion and mistrust or conviction that something bad will happen or that enemies want to persecute or mistreat them. Paranoia may be associated with several mental disorders: Delusional Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Paranoid Schizophrenia |
| Positive Symptoms | These prominent or added symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder, and aberrant behaviors. |
| poverty of speech | Speech, and presumably the thinking that underlies it, is brief and limited to a few words |
| Psychiatric Disability | When a person with mental illness can not obtain typical age appropriate goals for extended periods of times |
| Psychotic | This term encompasses those serious mental disorders, including schizophrenia, major depression, alcohol withdrawal delirium, and others where the individual "loses touch with reality." Hallucinations and delusions are generally considered psychotic symptoms. The individual experiencing them may be described as psychotic |
| Stress and vulnerability model | Belief Mental Illness is result of some persons being vulnerable to stress. When vulnerabilities are overloaded by life stages person begins to show illness |
| Symptoms | In behavioral health care as in general medicine, when an individual complains of a subjectively experienced disturbance or unpleasant perception such as pain or anxiety, we call this a symptom. We distinguish this from a sign such as slurred speech which a professional can observe |
| thought broadcasting | Delusion that others can perceive the patient's thoughts |
| Thought Disorder | Disturbance of thought content or form. Delusional thinking is an example of the former. The latter is referred to as a formal thought disorder and is exemplified by derailment. |
| 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 strengths 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 accountability of services. |
