psych vocab 2
Terms
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- norms
- standards of behavior in the group
- psychosis
- looses touch with reality- personality desinigration- great difficulty in functioning adequately- impaired reality testing- delusions
- multiaxial assessment
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Axis 1- clinical syndromes
Axis 2- personality disorders/ mental retardation
Axis 3- general medical conditions
Axis 4- psychosocial & environmental problems
Axis 5- global assessment and functioning - word salad
- series of words that seem totally unrelated- kite, purse, soda, etc.- (thinking)
- thought blocking
- sudden stopping in a train of thought or mid sentence
- tangential
- similar to circumstantial but the person never returns to the origional question- never really get to the point
- delusions - religious
- belief that one is favored by a higher being- think they are Jesus
- delusions- somatic
- belief that one's body is diseased or distorted- think they are melting
- delusions- grandiose
- belief that ones possesses greatnes or special powers- president, etc.
- delusions- paranoid
- excessive or irrational suspicion and distrust of others- conspirarcy theory
- delusions- thought broadcasting
- thoughts being aired to the outside world
- delusions- thought insertion
- thoughts placed into the mind by outside people or forces- CIA put a chip in my brain and are telling me to do things
- group
- therapy involving feedback of members- usually 7-10 members- work to help each other with their problems
- group structure
- have boundaries (ruleas and understandings)- have a purpose, etc.
- length of sessions
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-low functioning members 20-40 minutes
-high functioning members 60-120 minutes - perservation
- repeating a single idea or activity (usually verbal)
- neologisms
- new words created by the patient (and onoly they understand them)
- loose associations
- lack of logical relationship b/w thoughts- speech is inexact, vague, unforced (derailment)
- flight of ideas
- fragmented ideas, rapidly shifting from one topic to another (manic)
- circumstantial
- excessive detail, usually in relation to a question and an answer is ultimately given (go on & on)
- phobias
- morbid fear associated with extreme anxiety
- nihilistic ideas
- thoughts of nonexistence and hopelessness
- magical thinking
- belief that thinking equates with doing- because you think it will happen, it will happen
- ideas of reference
- interpreting external events as having direct, personal references- think everything is connected to them somehow
- hypochondriasis
- over concer with the body- think thy are sick
- depersonalization
- being outside of ones body- things around the person are different, strange, or uinreal- out of body experience
- mild anxiety
- tension of day to day life- person is alert and perceptual field is increased- hear and grasp info readily- motivates learning
- moderate anxiety
- focuses only on immediate concerns- perceptual field is narrowed as person sees, hears, and grasps less- blocks out selected areas but can attend to more if directed to do so- still very functional
- severe anxiety
- significant reduction in the perceptual field- can only focus on a specific detail- all behavior directed toward relieving anxiety- much direction is needed to focus on another area