Ch. 2 Groups in Need

Food Stamps

A program that provides benefits to low-income families/individuals to buy food

Labor Force

People of working age that are employed

Peer Counseling

Programs that help youth ventilate strong feelings about their home life and also to reduce the sense of isolation that some feel

Affirmative therapy

an effective approach to counseling that is positive, embracing, and supportive of LGBT relationships and experiences

Dementia

A group of disorders caused by damage to brain tissue, with effects like short-term memory loss, reduced ability to learn new material, and difficulties in understanding abstract or symbolic ideas.

Physical Illness

Disease or condition that affects the body

Mental illness

Health condition that changes emotions, thinking, or/and behavior

Psychoactive substance

A chemical substance that changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behavior.

Speed-balling

The practice of mixing and ingesting an opioid or a downer drug and a stimulant

Dissociative drugs

A class of hallucinogens that cause users to feel detached from reality

Hallucinogens

psychoactive substances that produce profound distortions in a person's perceptions of reality

Designer drugs

A wide range of chemical compounds that causes severe effects such as elevated heart rates and seizures

Co-occurring disorders

The presence of two or more disorders in the same person

Mass incarceration

Term used to describe the rapid and extensive increase in the number of people held in prisons and jails in the United States over the past four decades

Intellectual disability

A disorder during the developmental period that includes both intellectual and adaptive functioning deficits

Developmental disability

A diverse group of chronic conditions that are due to mental or physical impairments

Homeless person

as a person without “a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence”

Situationally homeless

Individuals who experience temporary or episodic homelessness due to a specific life event

Asymptomatic

a person who is infected with a disease but does not display any signs or symptoms

Antiretrovirals

medications used to treat HIV infection by suppressing the virus

HIV serostatus

A term indicating whether a person has tested positive or negative for HIV antibodies in a blood test.

Superinfection

A second infection by a different strain of the same virus