DIRECTIVE COUNSELING
The approach to conselling that follows a line relevant to the client. Also called directive psychotherapy.
DISPOSITION
A behavioural trait that distinguishes from person from others. Compare situational attribution.
EMOTIONAL IMMATURITY 1
1. Expressing emotions without restraint. 2. Lay term for maladjustment.
EMPIRICAL-CRITERION KEYING
Method to select questions for personality inventories where the items are chosen and weighted according to social criterion.
LIFE-CHANGE UNIT (LCU)
a unit of measurement which is found on the life-events rating scale. The life-events rating scale assigns values to potential…
MANIPULATION
The conscious and deliberate misleading of an individual by another individual either directly or indirectly in order to achieve a…
MEDICAL AUDIT
is the systematic and usually thorough evaluation of the entire diagnostic, treatment processes and the caring general process of an…
METHODOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM
is a strand of behaviourism which acknowledges the reality of conscious events but suggests the only way of studying them…
MOLAR ANALYSIS
considers overall relationships between the measurements themselves, such as the average response rates to rates of reinforcement extended overa a…
NAIVE PARTICIPANT
is a participant to a study which is not aware of the experimental hypothesis and who has not participated in…
NEGATIVISM
is a characteristic associated with a variety disorders. Negativism otherwise is the persistent resistant to suggestions of others, even when…
ORGANIZATIONAL APPROACH
with regard to the study of feelings, a conceptual construct, based upon the general systems theory, stressing the part of…
PARADOXICAL DIRECTIVE
an instruction by a therapy professional toward the client to do exactly the opposite of what common sense would guide…
PEER GROUP
a set of people who share at least one trait, like age, profession, education, cultural status, or economic status.