Anxiety Disorders

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MATCHING LAW

states that proportion of responses to an allocated to an alternative will match the proportion of reinforcement obtains from that…

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR

a qualified professional who is licensed to provide counselling either independently or as part of a treatment team.

MIND-BODY PROBLEM

is the inability to accounting for a relationship between the mental and physical processes in the body. Solutions to the…

MORAL THERAPY

was a type of therapy seen in the 19th century which believed that a person considered insane could be helped…

NEGATIVE ACCELERATION

is the binary opposite to positive acceleration where a situation which should change the rate of development of a variable…

NIGHTMARE

is a dream which is characterized as being frightening or disturbing to the individual which can induce feelings of fear,…

OBJECTIVITY

1. the propensity to base decisions and perceptions on exterior information instead of on subjective aspects, like private emotions, beliefs,…

ORGANIZATIONAL HUMANISM

an approach to bettering organizational efficacy based upon the presumption that efficacy is improved if organizational partakers can reach a…

PARADOXICAL REACTION

with regard to pharmacology, a drug response which contradicts the predicted effect, for instance, worsening of anxiety following the deliverance…

PEER GROUP

a set of people who share at least one trait, like age, profession, education, cultural status, or economic status.

PERSONAL DOCUMENTS

writings, documentations, and alike material generated by an individual who, whenever assessed in personal-document analysis, might render knowledge upon that…

PLACE LEARNING

1. the learning of physical positions or locations of objectives. 2. with regard to conditioning, learning a correlation between a…

DECOMPENSATION

The breakdown of our defense mechanisms that result in a worsening of psychiatric symptoms.

DEVALUATION

The defence mechanism that denies the importance of someone or something.

DIRECT COPING

The active and focused confrontation and management of a tressful situation.

DISPLAY RULES

Human behaviour. Social standards used for expressing emotion.

DUAL PROCESS THEORY

1. A theory that response to stimuli allows control of behaviour in 2 stages. 2. Memoery theory. Operation of 2…

EGO FUNCTIONS

Psychoanalytical theory. The variouis functions of the ego including self awareness, problem solving, controlling motor functions, memeory etc.

EMOTIONAL INSULATION

Defense mechanism. Where indifferent and detached responses are made in frustrating situations.

ENGULFMENT

1. The extreme distress and anxiety related to feelings of being taken over by an external force. 2. Thefear of…