SOCIAL CONTEXT
These are general environment or circumstances that are the social framework for interpersonal and individual behaviour.
SOCIAL ISOLATION
1. The voluntary or involuntary absence of having contact with others. 2. Experimental research. Separating an animal from other members…
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY NORM
a social standard that says we will help people in need. Compare reciprocity norm; social justice norm.
SOCIOPETAL
a term used to describe the environment a group meets under such as seating arrangement and room temperature that is…
SPURIOUS CORRELATION
the situation where variables are correlated through their common relationship with one or more other variables but not through a…
SUICIDAL IDEATION
Suicidal ideas or overwhelming desire to commit suicide, usually happening during depressive episodes. Usually not followed by actual try to…
Counseling Children and Adolescents on Death
Research suggests that bereaved children are a vulnerable population, at increased risk for social impairment and psychopathology (Baker, Sedney, &…
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POSITIVE SELF-REGARD
an outlook of self-esteem or self-value. Positive self-regard is frequently sought as an objective in remediation and is nurtured by…
PREFERENCE TEST
an analysis wherein consumers are asked to express a preference between rival products, like at least two candy bars.
POSITIVE SELF-TALK
the covert expression of concepts which encourage the development of an ideal performance state and are driving or self-enhancing.
POSITIVE TRANSFERENCE
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, displacement onto the therapy professional of emotions of idealization, love, attachment, or other good feelings…
PRESCRIPTION PRIVILEGE
the legal privilege to prescribe drugs and other medicines required for the remediation of medical or cognitive health troubles.
POSITIVIST CRIMINOLOGY
an approach which attempts to explain criminal actions not as an exercise of free will or of one's choosing, but…
POSTPOSITIVISM
noun. 1. the general stance of American psychology since the mid-twentieth century, whenever it stopped being dominated by logical positivism,…
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)
in the DSM-IV-TR, a disorder which stems whenever someone sruvives, endures, or witnesses an occurence wherein they believe that there…