PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT
1. acclimation by someone to occupational and residential conditions within their community and family, particularly with regard to cultural interactions…
PLACEBO EFFECT
a clinically substantial reaction to a therapeutically inert compound or non-particular remediation. It is now recognized that placebo effects comes…
DEDUCTIVE REASONING
Logical reasoning where the conclusion follows a set of premises. See logic- top-down analysis.
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
1. Process of deciding which of 2 diseases are showing overlapping systems. 2. Distinction between 2 or more similar conditions…
DISHABITUATION
The reapperarance or enhancement of a habitual response due to new stimulus. Compare habituation.
EGO FUNCTIONS
Psychoanalytical theory. The variouis functions of the ego including self awareness, problem solving, controlling motor functions, memeory etc.
EMOTIONAL SECURITY
Feelings of safety, confidence and freedom from apprehension. See security operations.
LIFE SATISFACTION
the degree which adults (typically) find the lives they lead rich, meaningful, full or of a generally high quality. Improving…
MANUAL ARTS THERAPY
is the use of manual arts such as woodworking and metalworking as rehabilitative activities.
MEDITATION
is considered an exercise during which the individual enters an extended state of contemplation and reflection over a specific subject…
MINIMIZATION
is the process of cognitive distortion which usually manifests itself as underestimating the importance and relevance of events to oneself…
MOTOR OVERFLOW
otherwise known as synkinesia is a condition whereby a stimulus is correctly interpreted and the appropriate response is made however…
NAIVE PERSONALITY THEORIES
are ideas about a person or object which are normally held implicitly rather than explicitly. They are a collection of…
NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE (NES)
an event which is alike to an epileptic seizure but isn't generated by an abnormal electrical discharge in the brain.…
OCCASION SETTER
with regard to Pavlovian conditioning, a stimulant which is differentially coupled with a stimulant-stimulant contingency.
OVERGENERALIZATION
noun. 1. a mental skewing wherein a person sees a sole occurrence as an invariable rule, so that, for instance,…