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Terms starting with 'P':
| Personality Disorders:
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| Psychological disorders in which maladaptive personality patterns cause personal distress or inability to get along with others. These inflexible ways of interacting often remain constant despite aging, different environments, and medication, and often cause serious difficulties for the disordered individual.
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| Physical Abuse of Children & Adolescents:
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| Physical abuse occurs when a person responsible for a child or adolescent's welfare causes physical injury or harm to the child. Examples of abusive treatment of children include: hitting with an object, kicking, burning, scalding, punching, and threatening or attacking with weapons. Children and adolescents who have been abused may suffer from depression, anxiety, low selfesteem, inability to build trusting relationships, alcohol and drug abuse, learning impairments, and conduct disorder. |
| Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD):
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| An anxiety disorder in which symptoms develop following a psychologically distressing event that is outside the normal range of human experiences (military combat, sexual assault, natural disasters, severe auto accidents). The essential features of PTSD include increased arousal, re-experiencing of a traumatic event, and avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event. The symptoms include continued flashbacks, nightmares, and intense distress when exposed to an object or situation that is related to the traumatic event.
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| Prevention:
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| The act of preventing or impeding. |
| Psychiatric Nurses:
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| Registered nurses who seek additional education and obtain a masters or doctoral degree can become advanced practice registered nurses in the specialty (APRNs). They provide the full range of psychiatric care services to individuals, families, groups and communities, function as psychotherapists, and in most states they have the authority to prescribe medications psychopharmacology.
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