| 1. | Coma | A severe disturbance of consciousness with absence of voluntary activity and diminished or absent responsiveness to tactile, thermal, proprioceptive, visual, auditory, olfactory, or verbal More… 0.3 KB |
| 2. | Combat fatigue | An outmoded term for posttraumatic stress disorder. Disabling physical and emotional reaction incident to military combat. Paradoxically, the reaction may not necessarily include fatigue. More… 0.2 KB |
| 3. | Commitment | A legal process for admitting, ordinarily involuntarily, a mentally ill person to a psychiatric treatment program. The legal definition and procedure vary from state to state, although More… 0.3 KB |
| 4. | Common sense | Common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense, or commonsensical), based on a strict construction of the term, consists of what people in common would More… 1.6 KB |
| 5. | Common sense reasoning | Commonsense reasoning is the branch of Artificial intelligence concerned with replicating human thinking. There are several components to this problem, including : + Developing adequately More… 0.8 KB |
| 6. | Communication disorders | In DSM-IV, this group includes expressive language disorder, mixed receptive/expressive language disorder, phonological disorder, and stuttering. In developmental expressive language More… 1.0 KB |
| 7. | Communicator credibility | In social psychology the extent to which the communicator of a message is believable. Thought to be related to whether the communicator is perceived as expert and trustworthy or not. |
| 8. | Community mental health | Delivery of services to needy, underserved groups through centers that offer outpatient therapy, short term inpatient care, day hospitalization, 24 hours emergency services, and consultation More… 0.3 KB |
| 9. | Community mental health center | (CMHC) A mental health service delivery system first authorized by the federal Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 to provide a comprehensive program of mental health care to More… 0.4 KB |
| 10. | Community psychiatry | That branch of psychiatry concerned with the provision and delivery of a coordinated program of mental health care to residents of a geographic area. These efforts include working with More… 0.4 KB |
| 11. | Community psychology | Approach to therapy that emphasizes the prevention and the seeking out of potential difficulties rather than waiting for troubled individuals to initiate consultation. The location for More… 0.3 KB |
| 12. | Comorbid | it refers to the presence of more than one diagnosis occurring in an individual at the same time. In psychiatry, comorbidity does not necessarily imply the presence of multiple diseases, but More… 0.9 KB |
| 13. | Comorbidity | The simultaneous appearance of two or more illnesses, such as the co-occurrence of schizophrenia and substance abuse or of alcohol dependence and depression. The association may reflect a More… 0.4 KB |
| 14. | Comparative psychology | Comparative psychology has been a part of American psychology since its emergence as a separate discipline. As early as 1875, William James wrote to Harvard University president Charles More… 2.7 KB |
| 15. | Compare | Compare: Write about the ways in which two or more things are similar and the ways in which they are different. |
| 16. | Compatibilism | Compatibilism, as championed by the ancient Greek Stoics, Hobbes, Hume and many contemporary philosophers, is a theory that argues that free will and determinism exist and are in fact More… 4.2 KB |
| 17. | Compensation | A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously (see unconscious), by which one attempts to make up for real or fancied deficiencies. Also a conscious process in which one strives to make up More… 0.3 KB |
| 18. | Compensation neurosis | Factitious or artificial illness complicated by unresolved monetary claims. |
| 19. | Competency to stand trial | A legal decision as to whether a person can participate meaningfully in his or her own defense. |
| 20. | Complex | A group of associated ideas having a common, strong emotional tone. These ideas are largely unconscious and significantly influence attitudes and associations. |
| 21. | Compulsion | A Repetitive ritualistic behavior such as hand washing or ordering or a mental such as praying or repeating words silently that aims to prevent or reduce distress or prevent some dreaded More… 0.4 KB |
| 22. | Compulsive | Refers to intensity or repetitiveness of behavior rather than to compulsive behavior strictly defined. Thus, “compulsive drinking” and “compulsive gambling” refer to cravings that may be More… 0.3 KB |
| 23. | Computed tomography | (CT) A technique for imaging anatomic structures using X ray. Objects are exposed to a series of X-ray beams on a single plane but with origin at different points around a 180-degree arc. A More… 0.5 KB |
| 24. | Computer ethics | Computer Ethics is a branch of practical philosophy which deals with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct. The term "computer More… 2.2 KB |
| 25. | Computerized tomography | (CT) Method of analyzing brain structure by passing narrow X-ray beams through a person’s head from several angles to produce measurements from which a computer can construct an image of the More… 0.2 KB |
