CADC - independent subject foundations flashcards
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- Recovery capital
- The personal, social and practical resources that can support recovery, including abilities, relationships, access and community opportunities rather than motivation alone.
- Formulation
- An integrated account of the person’s difficulties, context, strengths and maintaining mechanisms, intended to guide care while making uncertainty explicit.
- Affect
- The emotional expression observed during an encounter, distinguished from the person’s reported enduring mood and from an assumed diagnostic label.
- Thought form
- The organization and flow of thinking inferred through communication, rather than the subject matter or acceptability of a belief.
- Insight
- A multidimensional consideration of how a person understands experiences, difficulties and possible care, not a simple judgment of agreement or obedience.
- Differential diagnosis
- The set of plausible alternative explanations assessed using chronology, context, symptoms, exclusions and relevant medical or developmental evidence.
- Delirium
- An acute and often fluctuating disturbance of attention and awareness with additional cognitive change, requiring evaluation of underlying causes.
- Anhedonia
- Reduced interest or pleasure in activities previously experienced as rewarding, interpreted with context and the wider mood and functional assessment.
- Hypomania
- A classification-dependent mood and activity episode distinguished from full mania by its defined severity and other criteria, not merely cheerful behavior.
- Negative symptoms
- Reduced motivation, expression or engagement in a psychosis formulation, requiring assessment of possible secondary explanations such as depression or medication effects.
- Obsession
- A recurrent intrusive thought, image or urge experienced as unwanted in the relevant formulation, with its meaning and distress assessed in context.
- Compulsion
- A repetitive behavior or mental act linked to distress reduction or a feared consequence, considered through its function rather than appearance alone.
- Negative reinforcement
- An increase in future behavior because an aversive event is removed or avoided, distinct from punishment or a negative moral judgment.
- Behavioral experiment
- A collaboratively planned task that tests a stated prediction through observation within appropriate consent, safety and competence boundaries.
- Transference
- Patterns of feeling and expectation directed toward the therapist within the therapeutic relationship, explored as hypotheses rather than assumed facts.
- Countertransference
- The therapist’s emotional and other responses in the work, requiring reflection, supervision and attention to professional boundaries and alternative explanations.
- Adaptive functioning
- Practical, social and conceptual functioning in everyday life, interpreted alongside developmental history and suitable assessment rather than an IQ score alone.
- Genogram
- A structured diagram of family relationships and relevant history, using an explicit legend and information supplied or confirmed by participants.
- Triangulation
- A relational pattern in which a third person becomes involved in tension between two others, considered within a specific systemic formulation.
- Shared decision making
- A collaborative process combining relevant evidence, clinical options, the person’s preferences and circumstances, with suitable support for understanding and participation.
- Safety formulation
- A contextual and revisable account of possible harm, protective factors, immediate needs and foreseeable changes, used to guide proportionate professional planning.