Mental Heath Vocabulary

3. 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.
6. The psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment.
7. Disorder of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
8. Shielding (or designed to shield) against harm or discomfort.
9. Use and abuse of drugs and alcohol.
10. Mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature.
11. Of or relating to or caused by a poison.
12. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease.
16. Unhealthy pattern of eating characterized by preoccupation with food and distorted body image.
17. Signal going into an electronic system.
18. The fearful anticipation of further danger or problems accompanied by an intense unpleasant feeling (dysphoria) or physical symptoms.

1. Causing damage.
2. A form of psychiatric treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and a child or family.
4. In your mind.
5. trained professional who provides treatment to children with mental health issues.
12. 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.
13. The totality of surrounding conditions.
14. 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.
15. Teenage sexual abuse occurs when an adolescent is used for gratification of an adult’s sexual needs or desires.
16. Of or pertaining to feelings.