PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT
Treatments and education designed to increase a client's adaptability and independent function. Such treatments could include psychotherapy, clinical intervention and…
PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION
Also referred to as psychomotor excitement, psychomotor agitation is characterized by restless activity inappropriate to context. Examples are pacing, hand…
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
The scientific study of mental disorder(s). The field covers the theory, research, diagnosis and treatment of psychological diseases. It is…
PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
Also referred to as libidinal development, psychosexual development is the classic model of sexuality as put for by Sigmund Freud.…
PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER
Psychosomatic disorders are those in which psychological factors play a major role in the origin or course of the disorder.
PSYCHOTOGENIC
A drug-induced state resembling psychosis, with all the features of a psychotic episode including sensory illusion, hallucination and behavioral disturbance.…
PUBLIC SERVICE PSYCHOLOGY
A field of psychology dedicated and designed to provide services to the public. Public service psychology is most often found…
PURE MICROCEPHALY
Pure microcephaly is a condition characterized by an abnormally small cranium, however without the presence of any other congenital anomalies.…
PURPOSIVE PSYCHOLOGY
An approach to psychology that assumes organisms have conscious goals and that those goals motivate and direct their behavior.
PRESSOR EFFECT
The physiological effect of vasoconstrictors on a patient's blood vessel walls affecting veins and arteries.
PRETERM VIABILITY
The possibility of survival of a fetus outside the womb prior to full-term delivery.
PREVOCATIONAL TRAINING
Designed as a prepatory training, prevocational training does not concentrate on job-specific skills, but rather attempts to enhance a subject's…
PRIMAL-HORDE THEORY
In his work entitled Totem and Taboo, published in 1913 Sigmund Freud theorized the concept of the original tribe or…
PRIMARY CORTEX
Any region of the cerebral cortex that receives information from sensory receptors or communicates with muscles for action. Examples are:…
PRIMARY RELATIONSHIP
One's closest relationship. The one relationship the individual deems important enough to invest large amounts of time, energy and physical…
PRINCIPLE OF DISTRIBUTED REPETITIONS
A learning concept that states that repeating of material should be spread out over time as opposed to being compacted…