DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Technique used in psychotherapy focusing on underlying motivational or defensive factors determining behaviour an dadjustment. See depth therapy.
EMOTIONAL CONFLICT
The state of disharmony between incompatible intense emotions such as love and desire.
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
The reassurance, encouragement and understanding we give or receive to a person.
EXPECTANCY
1. Behavioural psychology. The state where an organism anticipates an event based on previous experience. 2. Cognitive psychology. Mental set…
EXTERNALIZATION
1. defense mechanism where our thoughts and feelings are attributed to the external world. 2. Process of learning to distinguish…
LINEAR CAUSATION
a simple explanation of the cause and effect hypothesis in that a simple event will have been caused by a…
MEASUREMENT ERROR
is any difference between the observed value and the real or true value which leads to the skewing of results…
MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR
a qualified professional who is licensed to provide counselling either independently or as part of a treatment team.
MINDFULNESS
is the awareness and ability to comprehend ones own self of existence in society and their surroundings - the binary…
MORBID DEPENDENCY
is the persistent reliance on another to provide to which degree, if removed the individual would struggle to cope independently.
NEGATIVE ACCELERATION
is the binary opposite to positive acceleration where a situation which should change the rate of development of a variable…
NONCONTINGENT REINFORCEMENT
the procedure or scenarios wherein a stimulant recognized to be effective as a supporter existed independently of any specific behaviors.…
OBSERVER DRIFT
gradual step-by-step alterations over time in the observations and documenting of observations made by a specific viewer.
ORGANISMIC VALUING PROCESS
with regard to client-focused theory, the assumed wellness and inborn interior advice program which an individual can utilize to stay…
PAPER-AND-PENCIL TEST
an examination wherein the problems or queries are penned, printed, or drawn and the answers are penned too.
PEER GROUP
a set of people who share at least one trait, like age, profession, education, cultural status, or economic status.
PERSONALITY DISINTEGRATION
a swift breakdown in character, cohesion, and operating, generally due to specifically distressing life scenarios.
DECEPTION RESEARCH
Used in research where the participants are not told everything about the research. See active deception- double deception- passive deception.