DEVELOPMENTAL PHARMACOKINETICS
Study of an infant to see how pharmacological agents are processed. See pharmacokinetics.
DEVELOPMENTAL THERAPY
A way to treat children and adolescents with different behavioural problems.
DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW
The interview with the mental health professional looking at a person's problems and situations.
DICHOTIC LISTENING
Listening to a message in one ear and ignoring the different mesaage in the other ear.
DARWINIAN FITNESS
proposed by Charles Darwin, the general achievement of a certain living being or genotype in generating viable offspring, which is…
DAUBERT HEARING
an official demonstration and evaluation of facts which is engaged in by American federal courts to establish whether or not…
DE LANGE'S SYNDROME
a hereditary disorder that presents in two ways, both being inclusive of average to serious cognitive retardation and corresponding to…
DEATH WISH
1. with regard to psychoanalytic theory, an aware or unaware desire that someone else, especially an authority figure, will meet…
DAMAGE-RISK CRITERIA (DRC)
the degrees and durations of subjections to noise which are likely to inflict lasting auditory loss.
DARWINIAN REFLEX
a grasping reflex displayed by and observed in infants, specifically those just recently born.
DAUBERT TEST
an analysis employed in American federal courts, in supplement of the formative Frye test, to establish whether or not an…
DEATH-ANXIETY SCALES
Death-Anxiety is an overwhelming, pervasive fear of death that interferes with a person's daily functioning. This is from answers to…