Mental health Vocabulary

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  1. 2. Teenage sexual abuse occurs when an adolescent is used for gratification of an adult’s sexual needs or desires. Severity of sexual abuse can range from fondling to forcible rape.
  2. 7. Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) comprises empirically-validated processes that facilitate the conscientious, explicit and judicious integration of individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research in making decisions about the care of individual patients.
  3. 11. A neuro-developmental condition which is usually diagnosed in the first 3 years of life. Generally parents become concerned when their child has delays in speech development, limited social relatedness, and restricted interests and activities.
  4. 14. Physical abuse occurs when a person responsible for a child or adolescent’s welfare causes physical injury or harm to the child.
  5. 16. denote or connote
  6. 17. A type of mood disorder characterized by low or irritable mood or loss of interest or pleasure in almost all activities over a period of time.
  7. 18. in your mind
  8. 19. The fearful anticipation of further danger or problems accompanied by an intense unpleasant feeling (dysphoria) or physical symptoms. Anxiety is not uncommon in children and adolescents.
  9. 20. a type of mood disorder with marked changes in mood between extreme elation or happiness and severe depression during adolescence.
Down
  1. 1. Use and abuse of drugs and alcohol.
  2. 3. an impairment of health
  3. 4. A repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior among teenagers in which they violate the rights of others, or violate norms or rules that are appropriate to their age.
  4. 5. of or pertaining to feelings
  5. 6. Disorder of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
  6. 8. a trained professional who provides treatment to children with mental health issues.
  7. 9. A form of psychiatric treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and a child or family.
  8. 10. free from infirmity or disease
  9. 12. Unhealthy pattern of eating characterized by preoccupation with food and distorted body image.
  10. 13. causing damage
  11. 15. A physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of thinking, feeling and behavior affecting children, adolescents and their families.