FORENSIC SOCIAL WORK
Application of social work principles and techniques to legal issues or situations involving the law, civil and criminal. It includes…
FORENSIC ASSESSMENT
the evaluation of the mental state of a defendant, witness or offender for the purpose of informing the court.
FOREWARNING OF PERSUASIVE INTENT
the term that is applied to the receipt of information that a subsequent communication is meant to change the attitude…
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
Psychiatry. Deals with abnormal behaviour and mental disorders that relate to legal issues like trials and hearings. It mainly deals…
FORM DISCRIMINATION
the term that is used to describe a person's ability to use their senses, mainly vision and touch, to judge…
FORM QUALITY
a term in Gestalt psychology where the emergent feature makes a thing recognisable even after it has been transformed.
FORMAL GRAMMAR
a term that is applied to the description of language in terms of its form and structure as opposed to…
FORMAL PARALLELISM
the comparative approach to the concept of development that relates multiple modes of functioning to different levels of organisation and…
FORMAL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
These are the official patterns of coordination and control, workflow, authority and communication that channel the activity of the members…
FORMAL REASONING
the reasoning that we use that entails using operations of formal logic. See deductive reasoning; logic.
FORM DISTORTION
a term that describes the change of an image that results from the optical qualities of the eye or an…
FOREGROUNDING
Technique of high lighting certain aspects of a complex stimulus to make them the focus of our attention. A speaker…
FOREIGNER TALK
the term applied to the way some people will talk to a foreigner. They will use short sentences, simple grammar…
FOOD ADDICTION
the name given to an eating disturbance where a person is preoccupied with weight, body image and food. Food is…