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Glossary

Definitions used across intelligence literacy, evidence, oversight, influence, identity, mental health, personas, and game mechanics. A definition explains site usage; it does not replace jurisdiction-specific law or individual clinical assessment.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

burnout

Work-related exhaustion, detachment or cynicism, and reduced effectiveness associated with chronic demands and insufficient recovery.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

dissociation

A broad description of detachment or discontinuity in awareness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, or sense of self. It is not a conclusion about cause.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

grief

A varied human response to death, disappearance, separation, lost identity, lost future, or profound change.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

harm reduction

Practical strategies that reduce risk and support dignity without requiring one universal recovery goal.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

hypervigilance

Persistent orientation toward possible threat. It may be adaptive in danger and exhausting or overgeneralized elsewhere.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

identity strain

Tension among roles, values, cover, secrecy, relationships, and sense of self. It is not automatically a diagnosis.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

institutional betrayal

Harm experienced when a trusted or depended-on institution fails to prevent, acknowledge, respond to, or repair wrongdoing.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

moral injury

Distress connected to actions, failures to act, or betrayals that violate deeply held moral expectations.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

psychosis

A broad clinical term for experiences that may affect perception, belief, thought organization, or shared reality. It does not imply violence or global unreliability.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

recovery

A personal process involving agency, connection, safety, rights, meaning, health, and participation; not simply symptom disappearance.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

trauma

An experience or response involving overwhelming threat, injury, violation, or loss. Effects vary and are not a character verdict.

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CLINICAL EDUCATION — NOT DIAGNOSIS
Mental health

vicarious trauma

Changes associated with repeated indirect exposure to others’ trauma, often through helping, analysis, or review work.

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