Clinical Terms Part II Flashcards
Identify the Clinical Term indicated by the phrase or sentence (34 cards)
The identification of coexistent diseases within an individual; This is most commonly associates with a problem with drugs or alcohol and another psychiatric disorder.
Dual Diagnosis
Pertaining to the biological aspects of an individual; This is most commonly used to distinguish between physiological and psychosocial problems.
Organic
The defense mechanism that protects the personality from anxiety or guilt by disavowing or ignoring unacceptable thoughts, emotions or wishes.
Denial
The unethical practice of assuming a second role with the client in addition to professional helper, such as friend, business associate, family member, or sex partner.
Duel Relationship
A state of reliance on other people or things for existence or support, nurturance, protections, security or shelter.
Dependency
A legal document ordering an individual to appear in court at a certain time; Failure to comply may result in some penalty.
Subpoena
A tendency to develop a trait or attribute under the right circumstance.
Predisposition
A reciprocal process between the individual and the environment, often involving changing the environment or being changed by it.
Adaptation
A strong repetitive urge to act in a certain way; frequently a means of relieving anxiety.
Compulsion
Effective behavior an individual uses in responding to or avoiding sources of stress.
Coping Skills
Compulsive stealing; The theft is often motivated by emotional release, excitement, r gratification and not by the need for the object or it’s material value.
Kleptomania
Abrupt shifts and excessive variation in an individual’s expression of affect.
Labile Affect
A pattern of behavior frequently seen in victims of spouse abuse and child abuse, in which the individual responds passively to risks of harm.
Learned Helplessness.
A compelling wish or drive that is out of an individuals immediate awareness but that influences him or her to act in a way that would seem contrary to his or her rational objectives.
Unconscious Motivation
The individual’s capacity for logical thinking, intelligence, perceptiveness, and self-control over impulses to achieve immediate gratification.
Ego Strengths
The premise and understanding between therapist and client that the information revealed by the client will not be divulged to others without expressed permission; Courts often honor this unless there is a risk of public danger or threat to the public good.
Privilege
Traits of personality, thought, behavior, and values that are incorporated by the individual who considers them acceptable and consistent with his or her overall “true” self.
Ego Syntonic
A set of conscious or unconscious emotional reactions to a client experienced by a therapist; these feelings usually originate in the therapist’s own developmental conflicts or past.
Countertransference
A medication-induced movement disorder that includes uncontrollable physical movements, especially in the face, lips, and tongue, and sometimes repetitive movements of the head, hands, and feet.
Tardive Dyskinesia
In behavior modification, the strengthen of a response through the removal of adverse stimuli.
Negative Reinforcement
The act of perceiving, understanding, experiencing, and responding to the emotional state and ideas of another person.
Empathy
In behavior modification, the elimination or weakening of a conditioned response by discounting the reinforcement after the response occurs.
Extinction
A concept that refers to emotional reactions that are assigned to current relationship but originated in earlier experiences (often the feelings a client has toward a therapist).
Transference
In behavior modification, a procedure that strengthens the tendency of a response to recur.
Reinforcement
