PARADOXICAL DIRECTIVE
an instruction by a therapy professional toward the client to do exactly the opposite of what common sense would guide…
PARANOID TENDENCY
a tendency in regard to emotions of mistrust, persecutory beliefs, and aversive understandings of oneself and of other people.
PARASEXUALITY
noun. any type of carnal actions not consisting of average carnal acts performed with a consenting adult partner or normal…
PARTICIPATIVE DECISION-MAKING (PDM)
the management practice of permitting workers to engage in the decision-making procedure. The degree of participation can vary from a…
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE
typical of behavior which is apparently innocuous, accidental, or neutral but which indirectly shows an unaware violent motive.
PATHOGENIC
adjective. Adding to illness or leading toward pathology. An agent is recognized as a pathogen.
PEAK PROCEDURE
a procedure, utilized in behavioral analyses, wherein repetitions of a fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement are intermittent along periods, generally two…
PEDUNCULAR HALLUCINOSIS
repetitive optical hallucinations stemming from pathological procedures in the upper brainstem, that indirectly impact the central visual system. The hallucinations,…
PENETRANCE
noun. with regard to genetics, the degree to which the impacts of an allele are cultivated in the people retaining…