SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
a view that learning is mainly due to our social interactions with others. Behaviour is assumed to be developed and…
SOCIAL SKILLS
These are the skills that allow a person to interact and to act appropriately in given social contexts. The skills…
SPECIFICITY OF BEHAVIOR
1. Certain behaviour is brought about by certain stimuli. 2. The fixed pattern of behaviour in a situation.
STATISTICS
Branch of mathematics that uses data descriptively and to infer and support answers to scientific questions.
SUICIDAL IDEATION
Suicidal ideas or overwhelming desire to commit suicide, usually happening during depressive episodes. Usually not followed by actual try to…
SELF-BLAMING DEPRESSION
the name for a major depressive episode where an unreasonable guilt is evident. This depression is experienced because a person…
SELF-IMAGE
how we see ourselves and gives us a sense of our personality and our success in relationships and our wellbeing.…
SELF-UNDERSTANDING
Attain the insight into your attitudes, motives, defences, reactions, weaknesses and strengths. Also called self-awareness.
SIMPLE EFFECTS
Seen in factorial design this is the comparison of group means of one factor at a set level of the…
SOCIAL AGENCY
These are the agencies that provide health, welfare and rehabilitation services. The aim is to improve quality of life.
SOCIAL LIMITATION
restriction attributed to social policy or barriers that will limit a person's fulfilment of roles or deny people access to…
SOCIAL STATISTICS
the application of statistical methods to understanding social problems and issues. See demography.
SPECULATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
view that is based on speculation and not research and experiments. Also read armchair psychology; rational psychology.
STEREOTYPE
a set of generalisations about a group of people or a social category. It may correct or incorrect. Mostly, these…
Counseling Children and Adolescents on Death
Research suggests that bereaved children are a vulnerable population, at increased risk for social impairment and psychopathology (Baker, Sedney, &…