Dissociative Disorders

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COVERT DESENSITIZATION

a type of desensitization therapy wherein a person is assisted in mastering a worry or fear by learning to be…

CUMULATIVE RECORD

an ongoing document wherein new information is attributed. With regard to conditioning, a collective document is a graph demonstrating the…

ABNORMAL

adjective. 1. all things atypical, unordinary, or considered outside of the norm. 2. in regards to statistics, any data studied…

ACTION-ORIENTED THERAPY

any sort of treatment which stresses starting and, of course, completing behaviors instead of spoken correspondence or perhaps conversation,

ADULT FOSTER CARE

the overseeing of neighborly-centered housing situations for adults who need watching over or those who need help with hygiene and…

ALTER EGO

1. An additional character or facet of someone which occurs metaphorically as their replacement or advocate, with diverse attributes. 2.…

ANXIETY

a mood state characterized by worry, apprehension, and somatic symptoms. Similar to the tension caused when an individual anticipates impending…

ARCHIVAL RESEARCH

the use of books, journals, documents, data sets, manuscripts, and other records or cultural artifacts in scientific research, that do…

ATTITUDE

in social psychology, an enduring and general evaluation or cognitive schema relating to an object, person, group, issue, or concept.…

AUTOMATIC DRAWING

the act of drawing images, doodles, or objects while in a hypnotic trance or in a situation in which the…

AWARENESS

n. refers to a consciousness of internal or external events or experiences, that is thought by some to separate human…

BEHAVIOR OBSERVATION

n. first and foremost, a record of behavior from one day to the next. This gives the observer an idea…

BEHAVIORAL ENDOCRINOLOGY

n. the study of the endocrine system in relation to behavior. There is a relationship between how hormones are secreted…

BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD

n. the collection and analysis of an account on a person. It may be the whole or a portion of…

BUTTERFLY EFFECT

a term which describes nonlinear causal relationships, in the way that the fluttering of a butterfly's wings in one side…

CONCENTRATIVE MEDITATION

a kind of meditation that concentrates on a sole stimulant- a certain visual- a certain noise, mantra, term, etc.- a…

CONFLICT

noun. 1. with regard to psychology, the conflict of differing or contrastive feeling-based or inspirational drives in the same person.…

CONTEXT

1. typically, the state or scenario wherein a certain sensation happens. 2. with regard to language, the portions of a…

CORRECTIVE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

an idea stemming from psychoanalysis which postulates that patients acquire significant and intensive modification via new interpersonal affective events they…

COVERT MODELING

a stealth conditioning process wherein the patient pictures a role model, visualizes acting as this individual may, so because of…