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POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
a major depressive event or, less typically, minor depressive disorder which impacts women within four weeks following the birth of…
PREFERENCE
noun. 1. with regard to conditioning, the likelihood of occurrence of one of at least two consecutively accessible reactions, generally…
POSTPARTUM PERIOD
the time of around six weeks after the birth of a child wherein the mother's reproductive system slowly returns to…
POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS
psychotic indicators which take place in women briefly following the birth of a child, frequently correlated with postpartum depression.
PRESCRIPTION PRIVILEGE
the legal privilege to prescribe drugs and other medicines required for the remediation of medical or cognitive health troubles.
POPULATION
noun. 1. the entire amount of people in a rendered geographical location. 2. with regard to statistics, a theoretically defined,…
POSTPOSITIVISM
noun. 1. the general stance of American psychology since the mid-twentieth century, whenever it stopped being dominated by logical positivism,…
POSTSCHIZOPHRENIC DEPRESSION
a depressive episode which might come after an acute schizophrenic episode. Postschizophrenic depression is observed variously as a typical occurence…
POPULATION RESEARCH
the analysis of the numbers, and modifications in the numbers, of individuals and other living beings, concentrating on the reasons…
POPULATION STEREOTYPE
with regard to ergonomics, generalizations about the perceptual, mental, or physical traits of a set of users, which are pertinent…
POSTVENTION
noun. the emotional release necessary for helpers and other people who work with those who have endured a traumatic occurence…
POVERTY OF IDEAS
a thought disruption, frequently correlated with dementia, extreme depression, and schizophrenia, wherein there is lessened spontaneity and progression of thought…
POSITIVE AFFECT
the internal feeling state which takes place whenever an objective has been achieved, a source of danger has been abstained…
POVERTY OF SPEECH
excessively short speech with minimal elaborations which takes place in schizophrenia or sometimes in the framework of a major depressive…
POSITIVE FEEDBACK
1. an organization whereby some of the output of a system, whether biological or mechanical is fed back to escalate…