Category: D

Vital needs for mothering, love, affection, shelter, protection, security, food, and warmth. May be a manifestation of regression when they reappear excessively in adults.  

Chemical dependence; sometimes defined in terms of physiological dependence, as evidenced by tolerance or withdrawal; at other times, defined in terms of impairment in social and occupational functioning resulting from the pathological and repeated use of a substance. In the latter definition, tolerance and withdrawal symptoms may be present but are not essential. The behaviors…

A federal department established in 1953 as the u.s. Department of health, education and welfare (DHW) to supervise and coordinate the following agencies: agency for healthcare research and quality (AHRQ); agency for toxic substances and disease registry (ATSDR); u.s. Food and drug administration (FDA); substance abuse and mental health services administration (SAMHSA); national institutes of…

Brand name for the anticonvulsant drug divalproex sodium.  

Brand name for the anticonvulsant drug valproic acid.  

Brand name (now discontinued) for the opioid antagonist drug naltrexone.  

An anticonvulsant medication used in the treatment of complex partial seizures and as a mood stabilizer to treat bipolar disorder. The brand name for valproate.  

A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, used to resolve emotional conflict and allay anxiety by disavowing thoughts, feelings, wishes, needs, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable. In psychology, a defense or coping mechanism in which a person avoids anxiety by refusing to perceive or accept a stressful situation. A person’s refusal to accept that…

The fear of crowds.  

The study of a population and those variables that bring about change in that population. Variables studied by demographers are age, sex, race, education, income, geographic trends, birth, and death, epidemiology; biometry. The study of populations and environments or changes affecting populations. The study of the populations of the world, their racial make-up, movements, birth…