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DIRECT COPING

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

DISPLACEMENT

Transferring behaviour or feelings from the original objet or person to another. See displaced aggression- drive displacement- scape goating.

DSM-IV-TR

The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

EFFICACY

1.The competence of behavioural performance with reference to a person's perception of performance capabilities. 2. Pharmacology. Dealing with dose relationship.

EMOTIONAL DETERIORATION

Emotional state of carelessness towards ourselves and othwr people.

EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Philosophy. Knowledge gained from experience. 2. Sciences. Knowledge gained from experiment and observation. See empiricism.

ETHICS

1. Branch of philosophy investigating the nature and content of moral judgements. Also called moral philosophy. 2. Principles of mporaaly

EXPERIMENT

The series of observations under controlled conditions used to study relationships to draw a causal inference.

LEARNED OPTIMISM

A psychotherapy mechanism where patients systematically remove depressive thoughts concentrating on the positive.

LUCID INTERVAL

is a term used to describe a period of normality or clear thought after a period of disorganization and delirium.

MASS PSYCHOLOGY

Is the collective term used to describe the range of psychological and emotional processes which occur throughout a population of

MENTAL HEALTH

is defined by the World Health Organisation as: A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely

MIRRORING

is the process of emulating, or copying exactly the behaviours, speech, and characteristics of another individual. Therapists can sometimes employ

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

NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR

behaviors which can dictate a person's outlooks or emotions without the need for speech. Non-verbal behaviors can be apmother or

OBTRUSIVE MEASURE

a way of gathering measurements or observations wherein those partaking know that a measurement is underway.

OUTCOME EXPECTANCIES

mental, emotional, and behavioral results which people consider to be correlated with future, or intended, actions and which are considered

PARTICIPANT

noun. an individual who participates in an investigation, analysis, or experiment, for instance by performing jobs mandated by the experimenter

PERCEIVED SELF

the subjective appraisal of private factors which one renders to their self.