Can Iron Deficiency Cause Psychological Problems?
The link between iron stores and your physical energy stores has been understood since the 1950's. Iron, the mineral that…
Bipolar 1 Disorder With Psychotic Features
Bipolar 1 disorder is a mood disorder characterized by episodes of mania and episodes of depression. People experiencing a manic…
Five Common Types of Psychological Tests
Many people have a great fear of mental health testing. This is often because there is no real scale for…
How to Overcome Depression
Is it the Blues or Depression? Most people have felt the pangs of sadness, hopelessness or loss at some time…
FAMILY THERAPY
involves the whole family becoming involved in the counselling process, instead of focussed efforts looking at a single individual, indeed,…
FOLLOW-UP COUNSELING
1. The steps taken by a therapist to help a client with any ongoing problems or new symptoms that may…
FRUSTRATION TOLERANCE
the ability a person has to endure the tension and to preserve equanimity when met with obstacles. It is a…
FUTURE-MINDEDNESS
the term used for the ability to engage in means to end future about the future. Being able to think…
GOAL DIFFICULTY
the term that is used to describe the degree of ability, effort and time commitment needed to achieve a certain…
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
an approach where people or information using more than one discipline will collaborate and obtain more detailed information about a…
INTERVENTION RESEARCH
Activities designed to measure how much better a situation is after modification that is systematic and to measure or has…
INVOLUNTARY ATTENTION
A prominent stimulus and the attention that is captured by it, an example in the field of the visual peripheral…
LATENT CONTENT
1. Hidden meaning in communication 2. Unconscious wishes expressed through dream or fantasy in symbolic representation as part of psychoanalytic theory.
FOLLOW-UP STUDY
the study undertaken to see if the short term effects of a therapy will continue after a certain period of…
FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to…
GABA ANTAGONISTS
These are the compounds that inhibit GABA receptor sites and GABA action. They can be direct and indirect. Best known…
GOAL ORIENTATION
1. Tendency for a person to physically and mentally position themselves toward their goal. 2. Characteristic of a person tending…
INTEREST TEST
an inventory where the person is asked to express their likes and dislikes for a range of different activities and…