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DRUG EDUCATION

The way to inform people about the various effects of chemical agents on the body.

DUAL PERSONALITY

A condition where a person's personality is divided into 2 independent systems. See dissociate identity disorder.

DUMMY VARIABLES

A variable in a logic based representation that is able to be bound to an element in their domain.

DWARFISM

A condition with an underdeveloped body structure. See pseudoachondroplasia- pygmyism.

DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

Technique used in psychotherapy focusing on underlying motivational or defensive factors determining behaviour an dadjustment. See depth therapy.

DYSCHROMATOPSIA

A congenital defect or an acquired defect in discriminating one colour from another. See cerebral dyschromatopsia.

DYSKINESIA

Any distorted voluntary movement. See extrapytamida- dyskenesia.

DYSPHAGIA

An impairment to swallowing.

DYSSOCIAL PERSONALITY

Obselete name for anti-social personality disorder.

DA 1

1. abbreviated form of dopamine. 2. abbreviated form of developmental age.

DANTROLENE

noun. A muscle relaxer possessing a main behavior directed at skeletal muscles. It treats muscular spasms commonly seen in those…

DATA POOLING

the blending of information, of at least two studies which may occasionally generate deceitful results.

DAY HOSPITAL

postulated by Scottish psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron, a facility wherein people are recipients to a wide range of remediation during…

DEATH CONCEPTS

mental constructs of linear time, assurance, universality, personal sensitivity, finiteness, and irreversibility, that conjoin with other factors to shape a…

DECADENCE

1. the deterioration of a society or culture due to a collapse of morals and traditional values. 2. A loss…

DA COSTA'S SYNDROME

founded by American surgeon Jacob Mendes Da Costa, a condition of anxiousness in soldiers during the American Civil War marked…

DAP TEST

abbreviated form of Machover Draw A Person Test.

DATA REDUCTION

the procedure involved in lessening a group of variables of measurements into a more minute, controllable, and dependable, or superior…

DAY TREATMENT

a system or organized interdisciplinary evaluation, remediation, and rehabilitation services rendered by professionals and paraprofessionals for handicapped persons or a…

DEATH FEIGNING

the act of coming to be stationary or pretending to be dead whenever in possible danger. Commonly referred to as…