Anxiety Disorders

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ADULT FOSTER CARE

the overseeing of neighborly-centered housing situations for adults who need watching over or those who need help with hygiene and

ALTER EGO

1. An additional character or facet of someone which occurs metaphorically as their replacement or advocate, with diverse attributes. 2.

ANTIPATHY

n. strong aversion or a specific or deep-seated dislike. May be founded or unfounded. See also prejudice.

APPRAISAL MOTIVE

the desire to gain accurate, objective information about the self leads people to seek highly diagnostic feedback (see diagnosticity). It

ASSOCIATIONISM

n. the theory that complex mental processes, such as thinking, learning, and memory, can be mainly explained by the associative

ATTRITION

n. dropout or loss of participants during an experiment or during a clinical trial, which may cause imbalance in groups.

AVERSION

n. refers to a physiological or emotional response to a stimulus that indicates that the an object, organism, or situation,

BASELINE

n. a line that serves as a basis or reference point for observing behavior. Because this behavioral performance is stable,

BEHAVIOR PATTERN

n. a recurrence of two or more responses which occur in a prescribed arrangement or order. These patterns of behavior

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

n. in behavioral medicine, refers to a subspecialty which studies the reciprocal relationship between overall well-being of the person and

BIOCHEMICAL DEFECT

n. a metabolic defect which contibutes to the onset of a neurological or psychiatric condition. This defect may either be

BOUNDARY ISSUES

n. in therapy and health care, refers to ethical issues which surround the relationship between a therapist and a patient.

CATEGORICAL DATA

n. types of data which can be counted and divided into groups. Thus, they consist of counts in contrast to

CONDITIONED

correlated with or explanatory of behavior whose existence, manner of demonstration, or both is the outcome of experience. The two

CONNECTIONISM

postulated by Edward I. Thorndike, the idea that learning consists of the obtaining of unbiased correlations between reaction and stimulant.

CONTRAST ERROR

a kind of rating error wherein the analysis of an objective individual in a set of people is impacted by

COTHERAPY

therapy performed by two professionals treating one or two patients, or sometimes a group of people of family unit, in

CRITERION GROUP

a group examined for characteristics that others belonging to the group are already recognized as having, generally with the intent

DEBILITATIVE ANXIETY

An anxiety felt by a person that they see as interfering with their performance, such as being psyched out or

ABSTRACT ATTITUDE

a mental state in which a person employs their capacity to be aware of all elements of a situation or