Mental Terms Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• paranoia : feelings of distrust and suspicion without a good reason
• hallucination : seeing, hearing, feeling, or smelling something that does not exist
• isolation : having no relationships or contact with others and little to no social support
• rumination : repetitive thinking or dwelling on negative feelings and distress about causes and consequences
• receptive : language refers to the ability to understand language heard or read
• prognosis : prediction of the course, duration, severity, and outcome of mental health condition
• echolalia : repeating or echoing words or sounds heard
• pressured : speech is a compulsive urge to talk in a rapid, urgent way
• adaptive : functioning refers to how an individual learns and uses conceptual, social, and practical skills in dealing with common life demands
• grandiosity : unrealistic sense of superiority
• decompensation : worsening of symptoms, sometimes caused by lack of medication
• mania : abnormally elevated, extreme changes in mood or emotions, energy level, or activity level
• executive : functioning refers to the cognitive and mental abilities that help people engage in goal-directed action
• affect : observed emotional state
• social : cognition refers to recognition of emotions
• distractibility : inability to maintain attention
• impulsive : tendency to act without thinking
• malinger : falsify or exaggerate a physical or mental condition for personal gain
• expressive : language refers naming objects, word findings, fluency, grammar, and syntax
• hypervigilance : increased alertness with constant assessing for potential threats around