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SELF-DESTRUCTIVENESS

These are behaviours that are damaging and not in our best interest. The behaviour can be repetitive and resist treatment

SELF-EVIDENT

something that is perceived to be true without the need for any other sort of evidence to make it true.

SELF-HYPNORELAXATION

a form of relaxation technique where a person responds to their own suggestions.

SELF-MANAGEMENT

1. It is about how we control our own behaviour. 2 A behaviour therapy program where people are trained to

SELF-REFERENCE EFFECT

a tendency for people to have an enhanced memory for any stimuli that relates to them.

SELF-SERVING BIAS

how we interpret an event in a way that gives us credit for success and denies any responsibility for failure.

SEMANTIC COUNSELING

counselling based on the meanings and interpretations that are related to our adjustment.

SEMANTIC THERAPY

a psychotherapy where people are trained to look at the undesired word habits and distorted ideas so they are able

SEMIOTICS

the study of non-verbal and verbal signs and how we communicate meaning in sign systems. As an academic discipline, it

SENSATE FOCUS THERAPY

an approach to sexual dysfunction where people are trained to focus attention on their natural and biological sensual cues to

SENSE OF SELF

our feeling of identity, uniqueness and self-direction. Read about the self-concept; self-image; sense of identity.

SENSORIMOTOR ARC

a reflex arc of an afferent sensory branch and an efferent sensory branch.

SENSORY BIAS

a display of a sensory preference that may relate to species signals. It is about the biasness an organism has

SENSORY INTEGRATION DYSFUNCTION

where we have trouble in organising and processing sensory input.

SENSORY STIMULATION

a response in a sensory conductor to a form of stimulus.

SEPARATION ANXIETY

a fear of being taken away from the person you trust most, mainly at a young age.

SERENTIL

Trade name for mesoridazine.

SERMS

the abbreviation for Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators. See anti oestrogen.

SET-UP

the arrangement of equipment, data collectors and participants needed for a study.

SEX INSTINCT

a dominant trait in men and recessive in women and the full effects are only seen in men.