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Applying scientific principles, methods and theories to identify, describe, measure and predict importnat factors to develop human service delivery systems. See program evaluation.

Any situation that challenges the person and produces stress needing our ego to adapt.

A large group of therapies from the 1950's and 60's in existential humanistic psychology.

The theory that allows us to fight or flight during an emergency. Also called emergency theory.

The study of the distribution and incidence of diseases and disorders. See incidence- relative risk.

The perception of pleasure that is brought on by an activity.

The 5th stage of alcoholism. Where periodic binge drinking is broken up by dry periods that can last fro months. See alpha, beta, delta...

Used by anthropologists who study community as a way of life.

1.The dense cytoplasm seen at the periphery of a cell. 2. The substance that is supposed to be seen around a medium during a...

Psychoanalytical theory. The part of the egothat holds positive identifications with parental goals and values we admire and want to emulate.