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Glossary of Terms
List of Terms that deal with addiction, addiction recovery, drug rehabs and halfway houses:

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Candy flipping - A high that’s achieved by combining LSD or acid with Methylenedioxymethamphetamine
(MDMA) or ecstasy.
“We were candy flipping at the club last night and I can hardly remember a thing.”

Carve-in - A generic term that refers to any of a continuum of joint efforts between clinicians and service providers; also used specifically to refer to health care delivery and financing arrangements in which all covered benefits (e.g., behavioral and general health care) are administered and funded by an integrated system.

Carve-out - A health care delivery and financing arrangement in which certain specific health care services that are covered benefits (e.g., behavioral health care) are administered and funded separately from general health care services. The carve-out is typically done through separate contracting or sub-contracting for services to the special population.

Case Manager - An individual who organizes and coordinates services and supports for children with mental health problems and their families. (Alternate terms: service coordinator, advocate, and facilitator.)

Case Management - A service that helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports. A case manager coordinates mental health, social work, educational, health, vocational, transportation, advocacy, respite care, and recreational services, as needed. The case manager makes sure that the changing needs of the child and family are met. (This definition does not apply to managed care.) Managed care definition: A system requiring that a single individual in the provider organization is responsible for arranging and approving all devices needed under the contract embraced by employers, mental health authorities, and insurance companies to ensure that individuals receive appropriate, reasonable health care services.

Chemical Imbalance - Having too much or too little of such brain neurotransmitters as serotonin or dopamine, which may play a role in depression and other mental illnesses.

Child Protective Services - Designed to safeguard the child when abuse, neglect, or abandonment is suspected, or when there is no family to take care of the child. Examples of help delivered in the home include financial assistance, vocational training, homemaker services, and daycare. If in-home supports are insufficient, the child may be removed from the home on a temporary or permanent basis. Ideally, the goal is to keep the child with the family whenever possible.

Chronic - A term used to describe long-lasting diseases or conditions.

Children and Adolescents at Risk for Mental Health Problems - Children are at greater risk for developing mental health problems when certain factors occur in their lives or environments. Factors include physical abuse, emotional abuse or neglect, harmful stress, discrimination, poverty, loss of a loved one, frequent relocation, alcohol and other drug use, trauma, and exposure to violence.

Claim - A request by an individual (or his or her provider) to that individual’s insurance company to pay for services obtained from a health care professional.

Claustrophobia - Fear of enclosed spaces.

Clinical Psychologist - A clinical psychologist is a professional with a doctoral degree in psychology who specializes in therapy.

Clinical Social Worker - Clinical social workers are health professionals trained in client-centered advocacy that assist clients with information, referral, and direct help in dealing with local, State, or Federal government agencies. As a result, they often serve as case managers to help people “navigate the system.” Clinical social workers cannot write prescriptions.

Collateral Services - Services that include contacts with significant others involved in the client’s/patient’s life for the purpose of discussing the client’s/patient’s emotional or behavioral problems or the collateral’s relationship with the client/patient.

Conduct Disorders - Children with conduct disorder repeatedly violate the personal or property rights of others and the basic expectations of society. A diagnosis of conduct disorder is likely when these symptoms continue for 6 months or longer. Conduct disorder is known as a “disruptive behavior disorder” because of its impact on children and their families, neighbors, and schools.

Cognitive Disorders - A set of disorders consisting of significant impairment of thinking (cognition) or memory that represents a marked deterioration from a previous level of functioning.

Cognitive Dissonance - A psychological phenomenon in which you have a conflict between beliefs and actions or between what you already know and new information gained through experience.

Co-morbidity - Two or more diseases or conditions occurring at the same time, such as anxiety disorder and depression.

Compulsion - An uncontrollable, repetitive and compelling urge to perform certain acts, such as hand washing, which has no immediate benefit beyond relief of anxiety. It’s the behavioral manifestation of an obsession. See also obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Conduct Disorder - A disorder in which youngsters have difficulty following rules and behaving in a socially acceptable way, often engaging in bullying, intimidation and physical violence against people and animals.

Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) - An act that allows workers and their families to continue their employer-sponsored health insurance for a certain amount of time after terminating employment. COBRA imposes different restrictions on individuals who leave their jobs voluntarily versus involuntarily.

Consumer - Any individual who does or could receive health care or services. Includes other more specialized terms, such as beneficiary, client, customer, eligible member, recipient, or patient.

Continuum of Care - A term that implies a progression of services that a child moves through, usually one service at a time. More recently, it has come to mean comprehensive services.

Conversion Disorder - A type of mental disorder in which severe anxiety or emotional distress or conflict is expressed through physical symptoms, such as problems walking or moving or even blindness.

Coordinated Services - Child-serving organizations talk with the family and agree upon a plan of care that meets the child’s needs. These organizations can include mental health, education, juvenile justice, and child welfare. Case management is necessary to coordinate services.

Cost-sharing - A health insurance policy provision that requires the insured party to pay a portion of the costs of covered services. Deductibles, coinsurance, and co-payment are types of cost sharing.

Counter-transference - Emotional reactions a psychotherapist has toward clients based on unconscious needs and conflicts, as opposed to conscious responses. See also transference.

Crank - Low quality crystallized Methamphetamine. A very addictive stimulant with a high that lasts
between 8 and 24 hours. Sometimes sold under the guise of cocaine by low grade pushers.
“I thought I was getting some high quality cocaine, but ended up with crank instead.”

Creditable Coverage - Any prior health insurance coverage that a person has received. Creditable coverage is used to decrease exclusion periods for pre-existing conditions when an individual switches insurance plans. Insurers cannot exclude coverage of pre-existing conditions, but may impose an exclusion period (no more than 12 months) before covering such conditions.

Crisis - A sudden intensification of symptoms that results in marked inability to function and possibly raising the risk of harm to others or the person in crisis because of overwhelming emotion, disturbed thinking or risky behavior.

Crunk(ed) - To get high and drunk at the same time.
“After some beer and weed I was completely crunked.”

Cutting - A form of self-injury or self-mutilation, done intentionally in an effort to seek relief from escalating emotional pain.

Cycling - The swings in mood in bipolar disorder from depression to mania.