Word Bank
Here’s many of the words used on this website and what they mean.
Word | Meaning |
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Achievement | Something that has been accomplished through effort |
Acknowledge | Recognise and accept the importance of something |
ADHD | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
Adjusting | To change something so that it fits |
Affirmative therapist | Is a form of psychotherapy for non-heterosexuals, specifically gay and lesbian clients, which focuses on client comfort in working towards authenticity and self-acceptance regarding sexual orientation, and does not attempt to "change" them to heterosexual |
Agoraphobia | A fear of going where there are other people |
Awkwardness | Causing problems, worry or embarrassment |
Anatomy | A persons body |
Anger | Natural response to being treated unfairly |
Anorexia | An emotional disorder characterised by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat |
Anxiety | Feeling of worry, nervousness or unease about a situation |
ASD | Autistic Spectrum Disorders |
Assessment | Review of your health needs |
Attachment Difficulties | Having difficult forming lasting relationships |
Autism | Difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people |
Behavioural | The way someone behaves |
Bereavement | Time spent adjusting to a loss |
Biological sex | Is our anatomy as female, male, or intersex. It includes our internal and external sex organs, chromosomes, and hormones. Some people are intersex rather than female or male |
Bipolar Disorder | Periods of elation and depression |
Body Image | What you think about your own body and how you feel about the way you look |
Bulimia | An emotional disorder characterised by a distorted body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by fasting or self-induced vomiting or purging |
Bullying | Unwanted aggressive behaviour among school aged children |
CAMHS | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services |
Challenging Behaviour | A person's behaviour can be defined as "challenging" if it puts them or those around them (such as their carer) at risk, or leads to a poorer quality of life. |
Chemical substances | Chemical substances exist as solids, liquids, gases or plasma, and may change with changes in temperature or pressure. |
Cluttered | Filled with things or people in an untidy way |
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy | Talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave |
Communication | Talking or sending or receiving information |
Compassion | Concern for the feelings of others |
Complexity | Something that is complicated or hard to understand |
Conduct Disorder | A range of antisocial types of behaviour displayed in childhood or adolescence |
Confidentiality | Not telling anyone other than those who should or need to know |
Consistent | Done in the same way |
Continence | The ability to voluntarily control urinary and faecal discharge |
Counselling | Give advice to someone |
Cyber Bullying | Use of electronic communication such as Facebook, SnapChat to bully a person |
DBT | Dialectical Behavioural Therapy |
Depression | Feeling very unhappy and without hope for the future |
Diagnosis | Explanation of an illness |
Dialectical | Talking |
Disrespected | Act in an insulting way to someone |
Distracted | Unable to concentrate |
Domestic Violence | Abuse of one partner within an intimate or family relationship |
Dyscalculia | Severe difficulty in making math calculations, as a result of brain disorder |
Dyslexia | Is a common learning difficulty that can cause problems with reading, writing and spelling |
Dyspraxia | Is a common disorder affecting fine and/or gross motor coordination in children and adults |
Eating Disorders | Abnormal or disturbed eating behaviour |
Emerging Personality Disorder | Personality disorders usually become noticeable in adolescence or early adulthood, but sometimes start in childhood. They can make it difficult for you to start and keep friendships or other relationships, and you may find it hard to work effectively with others. You may find other people very scary, and feel very alienated and alone |
Empathy | Understand the feelings of others |
Empower | Giving someone the authority or freedom to do something |
Endorphins | Block pain but also responsible for feelings of pleasure |
Erytophobia | A fear of the colour red |
Exaggerated | Say something is larger, better or worse than it is |
Family therapy | Counselling that helps family members improve communication and resolve conflicts |
Fatigue | Tiredness |
Flashbacks | A sudden, clear memory of a past event or time, usually one that was bad |
Fragile | Not strong; delicate and vulnerable |
Gender | Male or female |
Gender Dysphoria | The condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex |
Generalised Anxiety Disorder | Excessive anxiety about several aspects of your life |
Grief | A natural response to loss |
Habit | Something you do often, something without knowing |
Hallucinations | An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present |
Hormones | A natural substance that is produced in the body that influences the way the body grows or develops |
Hylophobia | A fear of trees |
Hyperactivity | More energy than normal |
Illegal substance | A drug which is not allowed legally |
Impairment | The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment" |
Impulsive | Do something without thinking |
Inattentive | Not paying attention to something |
Invasive | Tending to intrude on a person's thoughts or privacy |
Irritable | Having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed |
Learning Difficulties | Difficulties with the ability to learn |
Legal highs | A substance with stimulant or mood-altering properties whose sale or use is not banned by current legislation regarding the misuse of drugs. |
LGBTQ | Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Questioning |
Manic | Showing wild, apparently derange, excitement and energy |
Mentalisation | Understand the mental state of yourself and others |
Mentalisation Based Therapy | Treatment for people with borderline personality disorder |
Motor tics | Tics can be invisible to the observer, such as abdominal tensing or toe crunching. Common motor and phonic tics are, respectively, eye blinking and throat clearing |
Non-binary | Any gender identity |
Nurturing | Care and protect someone while they are growing |
Obsessions | An idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on your mind |
OCD | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
Overwhelmed | Feeling of having too much to deal with |
Panic Disorder | Regular panic attacks |
Participate | Join in |
Peers | Someone the same age as you |
Perceived | To come to an opinion of something |
Phobia | Fear of something |
Pneumonic | Affecting the lungs |
Predictable | Always behaving in the same way |
Prescription | Written document from a doctor/nurse for a patient to have medicine |
Professional | Someone who is specially trained |
Psychodynamic | Mental or emotional processes developing especially in early childhood and their effects on behaviour and mental states |
Psychological | Affecting the mind |
Psychological | Mental and emotional state of a person |
Psychologist | Is a professional who evaluates and studies behaviour and mental processes |
Psychosis | A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality |
PTSD | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
Puberty | The period during which adolescents reach sexual maturity and become capable of reproduction |
Realistic | Accurate and true to life |
Reassurance | A statement that remove someone's doubts or fears |
Recovering | Become well again after illness or injury |
Referral | Sending a letter to someone for further review |
Relaxation | The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed |
Restless | Unable to rest or relax |
Ruminations | Is the compulsively focused attention on the symptoms of one's distress, and on its possible causes and consequences, as opposed to its solutions |
Schizophrenia | A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation |
Self-Esteem | Feeling of satisfaction you have in yourself |
Self-Harm | Is where someone harms their body without wanting to die |
Self-Injurious | Non-suicidal self-harm |
SENCO | Special educational needs coordinator |
Sensations | Ability to feel something physically, especially by touching |
Sensory | Something you feel with your physical senses |
Sexual orientation | A person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual |
Social Agoraphobia | A fear of being with other people |
Social Anxiety Disorder | An excessive fear of social situation |
Specialist | Expert in a profession |
Stereotyped | Idea of a particular type of person |
Stimulant Medication | Produces temporary improvements in hyperactivity |
Strategies | Plan of action to achieve a long term goal |
Stress | A feeling of being under too much pressure |
Struggle | Finding it hard to deal with something that is hard |
Substance misuse | Harmful use of substances (like drugs and alcohol) for non-medical purposes |
Suicidal | Deeply unhappy or depressed and likely to commit suicide |
Symptoms | Indication of a disorder such a pain, sickness or weakness |
Talking Therapy | Talking to a therapist or counsellor in either individual or group session |
Therapy | Treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder |
Tics | A habitual spasmodic contraction of the muscles, most often in the face |
Tormented | Annoy or be unkind |
Tourette's | Is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterised by multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic |
Trans-flux | A flowing through, across, or beyond |
Trauma | A deeply distressing or disturbing experience |
Trigger | Something you see or hear that makes you feel you want to do something |
Twitches | Give or cause to give a short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement |
Unrealistic | Not real |
Verbally Aggressive | An assault on someone by shouting |
Vocal tics | An involuntary, abrupt, and inappropriate grunt, bark, or other exclamation or utterance, occurring especially in Tourette's syndrome |