Mental Health Terms

Question 1

Ambivalence

Answer 1

Represents a client’s desire to commit suicide and at the same time yearn, even plan, for rescue and intervention.

Question 2

Psychache

Answer 2

Refers to psychological pain.

Question 3

Transference

Answer 3

suggests feelings and thoughts that a client has towards the nurse, psychiatrist, or another service provider are rooted in the client’s unconscious, or repressed emotions and feeling toward people in his or her past, such as parents or teachers.

Question 4

Countertransference

Answer 4

refers to the feelings and thoughts that a mental-health service provider has toward a client that may be related to the provider’s own unconscious or repressed emotions, feeling, or experiences.