FOLIE A TROIS
Another shared psychotic disorder where 3 people in the same family share the same or similar delusions. French for triple…
FRUSTRATION
1. thwarting of impulses and actions. 2. Emotional state when thwarting happens. 3. Psychoanalytic theory. Damming up of psychic energy…
FUTURE-MINDEDNESS
the term used for the ability to engage in means to end future about the future. Being able to think…
GOAL SPECIFICITY
a term used to describe the degree that the target behavior of a goal is defined.
INTERNAL FRUSTRATION
Psychoanalytic theory. the term applied to the denial of gratification of instinctual impulses due to internal factors such as the…
INTRAPSYCHIC CONFLICT
Opposing forces and the clash of them within the psyche, it is a psychoanalytic theory such as wishes, agencies or…
JUNGIAN TYPOLOGY
a theory of personality that puts individuals into separate categories according to attitudes and dominant functions of the psyche.
FAMILY THERAPY
involves the whole family becoming involved in the counselling process, instead of focussed efforts looking at a single individual, indeed,…
FOLLOW-UP COUNSELING
1. The steps taken by a therapist to help a client with any ongoing problems or new symptoms that may…
FRUSTRATION TOLERANCE
the ability a person has to endure the tension and to preserve equanimity when met with obstacles. It is a…
GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR
Behavior oriented toward attaining a particular goal. Identified by observing that the animal or person ceases search behaviour and engages…
INTEROCEPTIVE STIMULUS
the term that is applied to the stimulus arising from inside an organism. Examples of this stimulus includes headache, stomach…
INTRINSIC BEHAVIOR
1. rewarding behaviour that is inherent. 2. A specific organ and a type of behaviour that is expressed through it…
KINESTHETIC IMAGERY
Dynamic is the cognitive creation of the feeling of movements while physically moving, like a figure skater may imagine the…
FOLLOW-UP STUDY
the study undertaken to see if the short term effects of a therapy will continue after a certain period of…
FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to…
GAMBLER'S FALLACY
failure to recognise a chance event and gives the belief that an outcome can be predicted that is based on…