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| The inability to experience pleasure |
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| The external manifestation of feeling or emotion which is manifested in facial expression, tone of voice, and body language. |
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| Mood disorders that include one or more manic episodes and usually one or more depressive episodes. |
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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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| A common mental disorder that presents with depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration. These problems can become chronic or recurrent and lead to substantial impairments in an individual's ability to take care of his or her everyday responsibilities. |
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| Feeling of depression or like everything is bad. |
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| A feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimesexaggerated in pathological states as mania. |
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| Lack of restraint in expressing one's feelings, frequently with over-evaluation of one's significance or importance |
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| A continuous flow of speech in which the person jumps rapidly from one topic to another. |
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| An elevated mood with symptoms less severe than those of mania in which a person does not experience impairment in reality testing, nor do the symptoms markedly impair the person's social, occupational, or interpersonal functions. |
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| Mood characterized by rapid shifts which may be as dramatic as laughing one minute and crying the next; unstable mood. |
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| An unstable elevated mood in which delusion, poor judgment, and other signs of impaired reality testing are evident. Patients have marked impairment of social, occupational, and interpersonal functioning. |
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| A pervasive and sustained emotion that, when extreme, can markedly color the way the individual perceives the world. |
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| A category of disorders characterized by disturbances of mood that range from elation to depression and interfere with normal functioning. |
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| Experiencing four or more mood episodes in a 12-month period. |
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| Depression; a mood disorder characterized by extreme feelings on one side of the spectrum (dysphoria) |
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| The relative deadliness of a chosen suicide method. |
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| Self-injury with clear intent to cause bodily harm or death. |
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| The ultimate act of self-destruction in which a person purposely ends his or her own life. |
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| Any willful, self-inflicted, life-threatening attempt at suicide that did not lead to death. |
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| Thoughts a person has regarding killing himself or herself. |
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| Assertive Community Treatment |
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| An intensive type of case management developed in response to community-living needs of people with serious, persistent psychiatric symptoms and patterns of repeated hospitalization for services such as emergency room and inpatient care. |
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| Deterioration of mental health and loss of control due to inability to compensate for mental illness due to stress. |
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| Any verbal or non-verbal (actual or attempted, conscious or unconscious) forceful means of harm or abuse of another person or object. |
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| An emotional response to the perception of frustration of desires or threat to one's needs. |
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| An objectionable act that involves intentional use of force that results in, or has the potential to result in, injury to another person. |
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| Any manual method or mechanical device, material, or equipment that inhibits free movement |
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| The last step in a process to maximize the safety of a patient and others, in which the patient is placed alone in a specially designed room for protection and close observation. |
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| An older, recently re-introduced concept of providing care based on the notion that disruptive psychiatric patients often have histories that include violence and victimization. |
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| Intentional techniques used for reduction of the intensity of a conflict |
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| A disagreement between two or more people or groups. |
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| Expectations for behavior in the group that develop over time and provide structure for members |
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| All that is said in a group |
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| The interaction continually taking place among members of a group. |
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| Members' expressed ideas or feelings that recur and have a common thread. |
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| A method whereby individuals with common purpose come together and benefit by both giving and receiving feedback within the dynamic and unique context of group life. |
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| A group of people with similar problems or concerns who meet to receive peer support and encouragement and work together using their strengths to gain control over their lives. |
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| A group that uses a variety of modalities to help people cope with overwhelming situations or alter unwanted behaviors during stressful periods. |
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| Aspects of the group experience that leaders and members have identified as facilitating therapeutic change |
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| Action that is done for the benefit of others |
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| The quality or state of being self-governing |
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| Fairness or righteousness |
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| Faithful devotion to duty |
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| A legal term that indicates that a person has been provided with a basic understanding of risks, benefits, and alternatives and is receiving treatment voluntarily |
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| The capacity to understand the consequences of one's decisions |
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| The ethical responsibility of a health care professional that prohibits the disclosure of privileged information without the patient's informed consent. |
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| An intentional threat designed to make the victim fearful; produces reasonable apprehension of harm. |
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| The harmful or offensive touching of another person. |
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| Willful and intentional acts that violate another person's rights or property |
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| Unintended acts against another person that produces injury or harm |
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| A serious and irreversible side effect of the phenothiazines and related drugs; consists of involuntary tonic muscle spasms typically involving the tongue, fingers, toes, neck, trunk, or pelvis. |
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| Ethical and legal obligations of health care worker to protect patients from physically harming themselves or others |
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| Failure to satisfy ethical, legal, or moral obligations |
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| Standards of Care/Practice |
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| Guidelines that determine what nurse should do. |
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| An act, or failure to act, that breaches the duty of due care and results in or is responsible for another person's injuries. |
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| Regular rhythmic movements, usually of the lower limbs; constant pacing may also be seen; often noticed in people taking anti-psychotic medications. |
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| A disturbance of thinking in which ideas shift from one subject to another in an oblique or unrelated manner. |
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| A pattern of speech characterized by indirectness and delay before the person gets to the point or answers a question; the person gets caught up in countless details and explanations. |
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| The meaningless rhyming of words, often in a forceful manner. |
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| A false belief held to be true even with evidence to the contrary (for example, the false belief that one is being singled out for harm by others). |
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| Repeating of the last words spoken by another; mimicry or imitation of the speech of another person |
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| Mimicry or imitation of the movements of another person. |
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| A sense perception for which no external stimulus exists |
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| The false impression that outside events have special meaning for oneself |
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| An error in the perception of a sensory stimulus. |
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| The belief that simply thinking something can make it happen; as seen in children and psychotic patients |
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| A word a person makes up that has meaning only for that person; often part of a delusional system |
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| A state characterized by the presence of intense and strongly defended irrational suspicions. These ideas cannot be corrected by experience and cannot be modified by facts or reality. |
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| A phase of schizophrenia in which subtle symptoms or deficits associated with schizophrenia are present; such symptoms may or may not herald the onset of schizophrenia |
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| Thinking in which the person goes off topic. |
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| The delusion that thoughts are being put into one's mind by someone else. |
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| Excessive maintenance of posture; for example, after the arms or legs are placed in a certain position, the individual holds that same position for hours. |
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| A mixture of words meaningless to the listener and to the speaker as well. |
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| A form of bipolar disorder in which hypomanic episodes alternate with major depression |
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| A form of bipolar disorder in which at least one episode of mania alternates with major depression. |
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| Difficulty naming or describing emotions. |
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