MINIMIZATION
is the process of cognitive distortion which usually manifests itself as underestimating the importance and relevance of events to oneself…
MUSTURBATION
first proposed by U.S. psychotherapist Albert Ellis (1913 - ), musturbation is the tendency for an individual to meet often…
OPTIMAL FUNCTIONING
the utmost potential degree of operation, particularly in the regions of valuable unions, work life, school, and subjective health.
PARTICIPANT
noun. an individual who participates in an investigation, analysis, or experiment, for instance by performing jobs mandated by the experimenter…
PERFORMANCE
noun. 1. any activity or gathering of reactions which leads to an outcome or has an impact on the surroundings.…
PLACEBO EFFECT
a clinically substantial reaction to a therapeutically inert compound or non-particular remediation. It is now recognized that placebo effects comes…
DERAILMENT
Thought disorder symptom marked by interruptions to thought and jumping from one though to another disconnected thought. See cognitive derailment-…
DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP
The relationship between the drug and its efficacy to target the organ or symptom.
EFFECT SIZE
The size of an effect in a study. See combing effect sizes- statistical significance.
EXCITATION-TRANSFER THEORY
Aggressive rsponses are intensified by arousal from other stimuli not directly related to the original stimulus that started the aggression.
EXTEROCEPTIVE STIMULUS
Stimulus coming from the external world. Compare interoceptive stimulus.
MANAGED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (MBHO)
a body of professionals which specialize in the organisation, management, administration and provision of health care benefits of health organizations.
MEDICAL FAMILY THERAPY
attempts to combine the doctrines of psychotherapy and biopsychosocial systems in the context of a family situation to help other…
MITIGATING FACTOR
is a factor or fact, in the context or a crime or convicted defendant which supports an argument for a…
NAIVE OBSERVER I
is an observer, who will have little or no knowledge about the scenario or event they are asked to observe,…
NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED (NOS)
in the DSM-IV-TR, designating a widely-based diagnostic classificaton, for instance, depressive disorder not otherwise ascertained. The NOS diagnosis is selected…
OPTIMAL LEVEL THEORY
any theory which stresses living beings' strife to reach optimal levels of some attribute, like arousal or stimulation, tension, foraging,…