ELECTRODERMAL CHANGES
Skin changes that lter its electrical conductivity. See galvanic skin response- skin conductance.
ERIKSON'S EIGHT STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
The 8 stages of development are: 1. Infancy, 2. toddler. 3. preschool age, 4. school age, 5. adolescence, 6. young adulthood, 7. middle age,...
EX-PATIENT CLUB
Psychiatry. Where an group is organised for ongoing care by former mental patients as part of an aftrcare program. See mental patient organisation.
ERGOTHERAPY
Treating a disease by muscular exercise.
EVALUATIVE REASONING
Critical thinking involving appraisal of the effectiveness, validity, meaning and relevance of an act, idea, technique or object.
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Creative planning of living and working areas to enhance habitability.
EGO IDENTITY
1. Psychoanalytical theory.The experience of the self as a recognisable entity. 2. The gradual acquisition of a sense of continuity, woryth and integration described...
ELECTIVE ABORTION
The planned termination of a pregnancy. See abortion.
EXTRINSIC RELIGION
is the binary opposite of intrinsic religion. Extrinsic religion primarily concerns itself with the social and moral obligations to those surrounding the religion and...
EMPTY-CHAIR TECHNIQUE
Gestalt therapy. Where the client conducts an emotional dialogue with an aspect of himself or a significant person in their life.