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Acute stress disorder diagnosis is appropriate when symptoms appear within the first month after the trauma and do not persist longer than 4 weeks Adaptive disclosure combat-specific therapy for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd); eight sessions designed to help identify unhelpful...

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Acute stress disorder ✅diagnosis is appropriate when symptoms appear within the first
month after the trauma and do not persist longer than 4 weeks

Adaptive disclosure ✅combat-specific therapy for veterans with post-traumatic stress
disorder (ptsd); eight sessions designed to help identify unhelpful beliefs about the
trauma and find ways to move forward

Adjustment disorder ✅a group of symptoms, such as stress, feeling sad, or hopeless,
and physical symptoms that occur following a stressful life event; the reaction is
stronger than would be expected for the event that occurred

Depersonalization ✅feelings of being disconnected from himself or herself; the client
feels detached from his or her behavior

Derealization ✅client senses that events are not real, when in fact, they are

Dissociation ✅a subconscious defense mechanism that helps a person protect his or
her emotional self from recognizing the full effects of some horrific or traumatic event by
allowing the mind to forget or remove itself from the painful situation or memory

Dissociative disorders ✅these disorders have the essential feature of a disruption in
the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or environmental
perception; they include amnesia, fugue, and dissociative identity disorder

Grounding tecnhiques ✅helpful to use with the client who is dissociating or
experiencing a flashback; grounding techniques remind the client that he or she is in the
present, and is safe

Hyperarousal ✅symptoms that arise from high levels of anxiety, including insomnia,
irritability, anger outbursts, watchfulness, suspiciousness, and distrustfulness. Often
seen with ptsd

Repressed memories ✅memories that are buried deeply in the subconscious mind or
repressed because they are too painful for the victim to acknowledge; often relate to
childhood abuse

Survivor ✅view of the client as a survivor of trauma or abuse rather than as a victim;
helps to refocus client's view of himself or herself as being strong enough to survive the
ordeal, which is a more empowering image than seeing oneself as a victim

,Anergia ✅lack of energy

Anhedonia ✅having no pleasure or joy in life; losing any sense of pleasure from
activities formerly enjoyed

Electroconvulsive therapy (ect) ✅used to treat depression in select groups such as
clients who do not respond to antidepressants or those who experience intolerable
medication side effects at therapeutic doses

Euthymic ✅normal or level mood

Flight of ideas ✅excessive amount and rate of speech composed of fragmented or
unrelated ideas; racing, often unconnected, thoughts

Hypertensive crisis ✅a life-threatening condition that can result when a client taking
maois ingests tyramine-containing foods and fluids or other medications

Hypomania ✅a period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable
mood lasting 4 days; does not impair the ability to function and does not involve
psychotic features

Kindling ✅the snowball-like effect seen when minor seizure activity seems to build up
into more frequent and severe seizures

Latency of response ✅refers to hesitation before the client responds to questions

Mania ✅a distinct period during which mood is abnormally and persistently elevated,
expansive, or irritable

Mood disorders ✅pervasive alterations in emotions that are manifested by depression
or mania or both

Pressured speech ✅unrelenting, rapid, often loud talking without pauses

Psychomotor agitation ✅increased body movements and thoughts

Psychomotor retardation ✅overall slowed movements; a general slowing of all
movements; slow cognitive processing and slow verbal interaction

Rumination ✅repeatedly going over the same thoughts

Seasonal affective disorder (sad) ✅mood disorder with two subtypes; in one, most
commonly called winter depression or fall-onset sad, people experience increased
sleep, appetite, and carbohydrate cravings; weight gain; interpersonal conflict; irritability;

, and heaviness in the extremities beginning in late autumn and abating in spring and
summer; the other subtype, called spring-onset sad, is less common and includes
symptoms of insomnia, weight loss, and poor appetite lasting from late spring or early
summer until early fall

Suicide precautions ✅removal of harmful items; increased supervision to prevent acts
of self-harm

Antisocial personality disorder ✅characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for,
or violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and
continues into adulthood.

Avoidant personality disorder ✅characterized by a pervasive pattern of social
discomfort and reticence, low self-esteem, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

Classified as an anxiety disorder, this is the term for an individual experiencing a
pervasive pattern of preoccupation with perfectionism, mental and interpersonal control,
and orderliness ✅ocd

This individual will present with repetitive thoughts and or behaviors that consume the
person. This disorder compels them to act out the behavior and often interferes with
their personal, social, and occupational function ✅ocd

Seen in ocd patients, repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels to
perform ✅compulsion

Seen in ocd patients, recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, images, or impulses that
cause anxiety or distress ✅obsessions

Ocd commonly begins around this age in females ✅in the 20s

This anxiety disorder typically has an onset late in adolescence with periods coming and
going over a lifetime. It can start in childhood, especially in males ✅ocd

An ocd related disorder for skin picking ✅dermatillomania

An ocd related disorder for chronic, repetitive hair pulling ✅trichotillomania

An ocd related disorder for nail biting ✅onychophagia

An ocd related disorder for compulsive buying ✅oniomania

An ocd related disorder for excessive acquisition of animals or things ✅hoarding
disorder

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