Category: C

Having the capacity to function effectively as an individual and an organization within the context of the cultural beliefs, behaviors, and needs presented by individuals and their communities. In education, the ability to perform a skill or set of skills at a high level or levels determined to be necessary for basic job performance. The…

A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, by which one attempts to make up or compensate for real or perceived deficiencies. Also a conscious process in which one strives to compensate for real or perceived defects of physique, performance skills, or psychological attributes. The two types frequently merge. Usually, a defense mechanism. Something which makes something else…

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 causal relation between one disorder and another or an underlying vulnerability to both disorders; however, the co-occurrence of the illnesses may be unrelated to any common etiology…

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 patients, their families, and agencies within the community. Goals are the prevention of mental illness as well as care and treatment for persons with mental disorders.…

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 catchment area residents. The CMHC is typically a community facility or a network of affiliated agencies that serves as a locus for the delivery of the various…

In dsm-iv-tr, this group includes expressive language disorder, mixed receptive-expressive language disorder, phonological disorder, and stuttering. Any speech or language impairment that interferes with human communication.  

Refers to the use of more than one treatment modality to achieve a desired effect, such as the pairing of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with antidepressant pharmacotherapy to treat panic disorder. It also may refer to the use of two or more medications with different mechanisms of action but within the same overall class, such as…

In Jungian theory (Carl Gustav Jung, 1875–1961), a portion of the unconscious common to all people. Refers to that portion of the unconscious that Carl Rogers considered common to all humans.  

A culture-specific sybdrome.