REGRESSION ANALYSIS
A technique for correlating the computation of the most likely value of one variable from the known value of another.…
RESERVE CAPACITY
Discrepancy between a subject's maximal ability to perform a given psychological exercise and the actual performance of that exercise.
ROLE REVERSAL
Strategy intended for treatment and instructive reasons wherein someone swaps roles with somebody else, so as to encounter different thinking…
SECONDARY GAINS
In psychoanalysis, social, occupational, or interpersonal advantages that a patient derives from symptoms. Indirect benefit, usually obtained through an illness…
SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL TRAINING
Cognitive behaviour therapy aiming to modify maladaptive beliefs and to develop new skills. See self-statement training. This training is not…
SEXUAL TRAUMA
It is a disturbing experiences relating to sex, such as rape and other sex offences. It is just like a…
SOCIAL AGE (SA)
an estimate of a person's capabilities in social situations that are relative to normal standards. In clinical situations with young…
SOMATIC THERAPY
Treating mental disorders with organic therapies such as psychotropic drugs, electroconvulsive therapy or megavitamin therapy. It is a specific type…
STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE
the degree to which a result cannot reasonably be attributed to the operation of chance or random factors alone,
STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY
Is a family psychotherapy that gives a modus for analytical approach to family problems that goes from the assumption that…
SURVEY RESEARCH
A method of the scientific research where the researcher tries to measure and evaluate condition of the community in relation…
TASK STRUCTURE
it is the structure in which the means to the end; everything is structured properly to perform a task. To…
SELF-INVENTORY
a question are used by a person to check the characteristics they perceive to apply to themselves.
SHORT PORTABLE MENTAL STATUS QUESTIONNAIRE (SPMSQ)
Short portable mental status questionnaire is a short questionnaire that is used to screen older adults for dementia signs and…
SOCIAL AGENCY
These are the agencies that provide health, welfare and rehabilitation services. The aim is to improve quality of life.
SOCIAL PENETRATION THEORY
a model that shows a close relationship will get closer as both people disclose more and more intimate things about…
STATISTICS
Branch of mathematics that uses data descriptively and to infer and support answers to scientific questions.