EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
The reassurance, encouragement and understanding we give or receive to a person.
EVALUATION RESEARCH
Applying scientific principles, methods and theories to identify, describe, measure and predict importnat factors to develop human service delivery systems.…
EXPRESSED EMOTION (EE)
Negative emotions that are expressed by family members to the person with a mental or emotional disorder.
MANAGED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (MBHO)
a body of professionals which specialize in the organisation, management, administration and provision of health care benefits of health organizations.
MEDICAL FAMILY THERAPY
attempts to combine the doctrines of psychotherapy and biopsychosocial systems in the context of a family situation to help other…
MIXED-STANDARD SCALE
is a test of behaviour evaluation. Participants are presented with a selection of behaviours and asked to evaluate them based…
NEGATIVE ADAPTATION
is the gradual loss of feeling or effectiveness due to prolonged stimulation.
OBJECTIVE TEST
an examination modeled to induce a particular response, accurate or inaccurate. A true or false examination is one instance of…
PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY
postulated by Albert Bandura as a primary determinant of emotional and motivational conditions and behavioral change, a person's subjective comprehension…
ACTIVATIONAL EFFECT
a temporary chemical influence which usually produces a brief variation in performance or physical motion in mature animals. For instance,…
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
the use of books, journals, documents, data sets, manuscripts, and other records or cultural artifacts in scientific research, that do…
AVAILABILITY ERROR
refers to cognitive errors made because the first item that comes to mind is often mistaken for the best or…
BEHAVIORAL CONTINGENCY
n. that possibility that there may or may not be a relationship between an individual's specific response and the frequency…
BIOLOGICAL CLOCK
n. the internal mechanism which controls the rhythm of activities in a living organism. Referred to as biological rhythm or…
CATEGORIZATION
n. the process of grouping or classifying people, objects, events, and experiences. Usually, these are grouped according to classes based…
CONFIDENTIALITY
noun. A standard of professional values necessitating suppliers of mental or medical healthcare to constrain the revealing of a person's…
CONVERGENT VALIDITY
a type of construct validity based upon the level to which the gauging tool being examined shows vast involvement with…