| AA
|
Alcoholics
Anonymous |
| Acute |
A
short and severe stage of an illness
or condition. |
| ADA
|
Americans
with Disabilities Act |
| ADHD
|
Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
|
| ADL
|
Activities
of Daily Living |
| Antidepressants
|
Medicine
given to consumers who have depression.
They are not addictive and usually
need to be taken for 2-4 weeks before
feeling better.
|
| Anxiety
Disorders |
Anxiety
and worry are a normal part of everyday
life. Most people get anxious in everyday
situations such as at work, at sporting
events or before an interview. When
a person is worried continuously in
particular situations they may be
suffering from an anxiety disorder.
Often a person with an anxiety disorder
fears that a relative or themselves
will become ill or have an accident
or they worry about money or work. |
| APH
|
Adult
Partial Hospital |
| BHRS |
Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services |
| BPD
|
Borderline
Personality Disorder |
| BSU
|
Base
Service Unit |
| CASA
|
Court
Appointed Special Advocate
|
| Case
Management |
This
is a service that links, mobilizes,
coordinates, monitors, and reviews
services and resources for the consumers
of the mental health services. |
| CASSP
|
Children
and Adolescent Service Support Program |
| CHIPPs
|
Community-Hospital
Integrated Program Plans |
| CIS
|
Crisis
Intervention Services |
| CLA
|
Community
Living Arrangement |
| Clubhouse
|
A
place for consumers to recreate and
socialize.
|
| CM
|
Case
Manager |
| CMHC
|
Community
Mental Health Center |
| CMI
|
Chronically
Mentally Ill |
| Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy |
A
form of therapy that is designed to
change the mental images, thoughts
and thinking patterns to help consumers
overcome emotional and behavioural
problems. |
| Community
Treatment Team (CTT) |
The
treatment staff (Psychiatrist, Nurse,
Case Manager, Therapist and/or Crisis
Worker,etc), based on the need of
the consumer, goes to the consumer
to provide treatment. |
| Consumer
|
A
person who has received or is receiving
mental heath or addiction services.
|
| CPH |
Children's
Partial Hospital |
| Crisis
|
A
time when one cannot cope with his
illness.
|
| Crisis
Intervention |
At
times of acute danger or difficulty
staff become involved with a person
to help change the course of their
condition. |
| Crisis
Stabilization
|
The
help one gets when he is in a crisis.
This may include medication changes,
therapy, case management or hospitalization.
|
| CRP
|
Crisis
Residential Program |
| CST
|
Consumer
Satisfaction Team |
| CTT
|
Community
Treatment Team |
| D&A
|
Drug
and Alcohol |
| DC
|
Discharge |
| DD
|
Developmental
Disabilities |
| Delusions
|
A
false belief that continues to be
believed even when the facts prove
differently.
|
| Depression |
Depression
is a common condition that has many
forms. It may be caused by a number
of things such as a reaction to a
death, loss of a job or a break-up
with a partner. Depression may vary
from a mild, long-standing sadness
to a deep despair making it difficult
to function from day-to-day. Depression
affects how a person feels, thinks
and behaves and it also often affects
physical health. Often people feel
empty, worthless, apathetic and irritable
and they have a loss of pleasure in
daily activities. People who are depressed
often find basic activities such as
sleeping, eating and thinking very
difficult. |
| Detox
Services
|
A
medically managed stabilization of
a person coming off chemical substances.
May be inpatient or outpatient treatment.
|
| DHHS
|
US
Department of Health and Human Services |
| Diagnosis |
Identifying
an illness by looking at the pattern
of symptoms that a person describes
or is experiencing. |
| Dialectical
Behavioral Therapy (DBT) |
DBT
is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral
treatment for complex, difficult-to-treat
mental disorders. Developed to treat
chronically suicidal individuals as
well as treatment for multi-disordered
individuals with borderline personality
disorder (BPD). |
| DPW
|
Pennsylvania
Department of Public Welfare |
| DSM-IV
|
Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(4th Edition) |
| Dually
Diagnosed
|
A
consumer who has a mental illness
and a substance abuse diagnosis at
the same time |
| First
Episode Psychosis |
The
first time that a consumer experiences
a mental state where there is distortion
in, or a loss of contact with reality. |
| Group
Homes |
Several
consumers live together with staff
helping them. |
| Group
Therapy:
|
A
group of consumers with similar disorders
meeting with a therapist to discuss
emotions, behaviors and thoughts.
|
| H.O.P.E |
|
| Hallucinations
|
Seeing,
hearing, feeling or smelling things
that are not there.
|
| HMO
|
Health
Maintenance Organization |
| Hypomania
|
A
mild form of mania. The consumer will
experience increased energy, improved
mood or irritability, increased talkativeness,
decreased need for sleep, increased
social or sexual activity, and increased
spending.
|
| ICM
|
Intensive
Case Management |
| IEP |
Individualized
Education Plan
|
| Inpatient
Services
|
The
services you get when you are in the
hospital.
|
| Intensive
Outpatient Services (IOP)
|
Treatment
consumers with a Serious Mental Illness
(SMI) receive when not in the hospital
that lasts for more than an hour and
takes place several days per week.
Usually involves groups, one-on-one
counseling and education.
|
| IOP |
Intensive
Outpatient Program |
| IP
|
Inpatient |
| ISP
|
Individual
Service Plan
|
| ITP
|
Individual
Treatment Plan
|
| ITT
|
Interdisciplinary
Treatment Team |
| IVRP |
Intensive
Vocational Rehabilitation Program |
| JCAHO
|
Joint
Commission for the Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations |
| LOS
|
Length
of Stay |
| LSW |
Licensed
Social Worker
|
| LTSR
- Long Term Structured Residence |
Long
Term Structured Residence |
| MA
|
Medical
Assistance (Medicaid) |
| Major
Depression
|
A
period of at least 2 weeks when you
experience the loss of interest or
pleasure in doing most things and
have at least four of the following:
change in appetite, weight, sleep,
work; decreased energy, feelings of
worthlessness or guilt; difficulty
thinking, concentrating or making
decisions; or recurrent thoughts of
death or of killing yourself.
|
| Mania |
A
period that lasts at least 2 days
where a consumer experiences racing
thoughts, euphoria (feeling better
than "great"), poor safety, poor judgment
and wild spending. Can also include
auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations,
and/or delusions.
|
| MCT
|
Mobile
Crisis Team
|
| MDD
|
Major
Depressive Disorder |
| Medicaid
|
A
joint Federal and State program that
pays for health care for low-income
people or for people eligible for
other reasons. |
| Mental
Health Assessment |
A
measurement or evaluation of the consumers'
mental health including their social,
emotional and behavioural functioning. |
| Mental
Illness |
A
disease of the brain that causes unusual
thoughts and emotions, including depression,
feeling like you can do anything and/or
not knowing the difference between
reality and unreality.
|
| MH
|
Mental
Health
|
| MH/MR
|
Mental
Health/Mental Retardation |
| MHA
|
Mental
Health Association |
| MHP
|
Mental
Health Professional
|
| MHRO
|
Mental
Health Review Officer |
| MI-Mentally
Ill
|
Mentally
Ill
|
| MISA
|
Mentally
ill and Substance Abuser; Outpatient
services primarily for consumers with
drug and alcohol issues |
| MMPI
|
Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory
|
| Mood
Disorders |
Everyone
has changes in their mood and there
are good reasons for these mood changes.
If you have just had dinner with friends
you may feel happy and if your pet
has just died you may feel sad. Usually
our mood is suitable for what is happening
in our lives. People who have mood
disorders tend to have big changes
in their moods for no obvious reason.
They may be excited or happy for no
reason or upset and sad when good
things are happening in their lives.
When severe mood swings keep happening
without good reason it is likely that
the person has a mood disorder. |
| MSW
|
Master's
Degree in Social Work
|
| NA
|
Narcotics
Anonymous |
| NAMI
|
National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill |
| Neuroleptic
Drugs
|
Sometimes
called anti-psychotic or psychotropic
drugs. These medicines help with hallucinations,
delusions or paranoia.
|
| NIMH
|
National
Institute of Mental Health |
| Occupational
Therapy (OT)
|
Occupational
therapy is the professional group
that uses activities and occupations
to enable people to recover from mental
illness. Occupational therapists
work with people to regain lost abilities,
or to develop new skills and interests.
Being involved in meaningful occupations
helps people on their journey to recovery.
They focus on self-care, productivity
and leisure time activities.
|
| OCD
|
Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder
|
| OMAP
|
Office
of Medical Assistance Programs (State) |
| OMBH
|
Office
of Managed Behavioral Health Care |
| OMHSAS
|
Pennsylvania
Office of Mental Health and Substance
Abuse Services |
| OP
|
Outpatient |
| OT
|
Occupational
Therapy
|
| Outpatient
Services
|
The
services you get when you are not
in the hospital. You usually go to
a clinic to see your doctor, therapist
or case manager.
|
| OVR
|
Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation
|
| PACT-
|
Program
of Assertive Community Treatment;
see CTT
|
| Panic
Disorder
|
A
stronger form of anxiety that may
include sweating, heart racing, dizziness
or feeling like one is going to die.
This disorder may cause lack of sleep
and paranoia to the point that the
consumer does not want to go certain
places or leave his home at all.
|
| Paranoia
|
When
a person feels distrustful of others.
He may believe someone is out to get
him or hurt him in some way.
|
| Partial
Hospitalization
|
Treatment
consumers with a Serious Mental Illness
(SMI) receive when not in the hospital
that lasts for more than an hour and
takes place several days per week.
Usually involves groups, one-on-one
counseling and education.
|
| PCH
|
Personal
Care Home |
| PCP
|
Primary
Care Provider
|
| POMS
|
Performance
Outcome Measurement System |
| PP&A
|
Pennsylvania
Protection and Advocacy, Inc. |
| Psychiatric/Mental
Health Nurse
|
A
mental health nurse provides treatment,
care and support for people with emotional,
mental and behavioural problems.
Mental health nurses are increasingly
working in a community setting, but
the majority work in hospital outpatient
or outpatient settings. They
are skilled in the specialised use
of communication, counselling, psychopharmacology,
applying speciality knowledge in the
provision of clinical assessment,
monitoring, therapeutic interventions,
treatment, and referral to other health
professionals.
|
| Psychiatrist
|
A
medically trained specialist in mental
health who, as a doctor, focuses on
the definite signs and symptoms of
mental illness to formulate a diagnosis
and treatment. Psychiatrists are able
to prescribe medication.
|
| Psychologist
|
They
assess the current emotional and lifestyle
problems of clients, their social
and family histories, and examine
how feelings, actions, beliefs and
culture interact to shape the person's
experience and difficulties.
Clinical Psychologists give psychometric
and neuropsychological tests to identify
problems and to measure clients' skills
and abilities. They develop
and implement individual client plans.
They cannot prescribe medication.
|
| Psychosis
|
A
state that causes very serious disorganized
thinking and total loss of reality.
This state may cause auditory and/or
visual hallucinations, delusions,
and/or paranoia and may cause a consumer
to become violent.
|
| Psychotropic
Drugs
|
Medicines
given to control regular symptoms
of mental illness, not psychotic symptoms.
|
| PTSD
|
Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder
|
| QA
|
Quality
Assurance |
| RC
|
Resource
Coordinator |
| Referral |
To
send or direct a person to another
service or specialist for further
treatment. |
| Rehabilitation |
Programs
which are designed to strengthen individual
skills to assist recovery and to develop
the environmental supports necessary
to sustain the individual as actively
and independently as possible in a
community setting and prevent hospitalisation.
Services, including basic life, prevocational,
vocational, recreational, or social,
for persons with severe and persistent
mental illness. |
| Residential
Services
|
24
hour living where consumers can receive
treatment, education, groups, and
skills training.
|
| RTF
|
Residential
Treatment Facility |
| SAMHSA
|
The
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration |
| Schizophrenia
|
A
mental disorder that causes a separation
between the thought processes and
the emotions. Consumers may experience
confusion of reality with hallucinations
and/or delusions and may become paranoid.
A change in personality with bizarre
behavior may occur.
|
| Serious
Emotional Disturbance (SED)
|
Any
disorder that affects your mood (depression,
bi-polar disorder, anxiety, panic).
|
| Serious
Mental Illness (SMI) |
An
adult disorder that cannot be cured
and causes difficulty with daily living
(taking care of themselves), has problems
with relationships, difficulty concentrating,
and adapting to change. The illness
is expected to last at least 12 months.
Examples: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,
or major depression.
|
| Services
Provider
|
Mental
Health Centers or hospitals that have
been approved by the Division of Mental
Health to provide mental health and/or
addiction treatment.
|
| SMH
|
State
Mental Hospital |
| SPCH
|
Specialized
Personal Care Home
|
| SPMI
|
Serious
and Persistent Mental Illness
|
| SSA
|
Social
Security Administration
|
| SSI
|
Supplemental
Security Income |
| Stigma
|
A
mark or sign of shame, disgrace or
disapproval.
|
| Suicidal
Thoughts |
When
a person thinks about killing himself
or herself. |
| Symptoms |
A
change in a person's physical, behavioral
or mental state indicating that a
person is not functioning normally
or an illness is present. |
| TD |
Tardive
Dyskinesia
|
| Treatment |
The
use of medication, rehabilitation
and a team of mental health professionals,
as well as yourself to help in the
recovery from a mental illness. |
| Treatment
Team |
|
| VBH
|
Value
Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania
(Western PA) |
