Personality Disorders

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DECISIONAL BALANCE

A way to assess positive and negative consequences of choosing a new behaviour.

DETERMINISM

1. Philosophy. Taking the psoition that all events are the results of an antecedent cause or other force. See causality.

DIRECT COPING

The active and focused confrontation and management of a tressful situation.

DISPOSITION

A behavioural trait that distinguishes from person from others. Compare situational attribution.

DYADIC RELATIONSHIP

1. A committed 2 person relationship. 2. Relationship between therapist and client.

EGO RESILIENCY

A personality with the ability to vary and adapt and express emotional impulses depending on social demands.

EMOTIONAL INSIGHT 1

1. Awareness of your own emotional reactions and those of others. 2. Psychotherapy. The client's awareness of emotional forces underlying

EMPIRICAL SELF

The self that is known to the self. Where me is contrasted to I.

ETHNICITY

The categorisation socially based on a person's ethnic group. See ethnic identity.

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Any research based on random experiments to draw a causal inference.

LIFE SATISFACTION

the degree which adults (typically) find the lives they lead rich, meaningful, full or of a generally high quality. Improving

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.

MEDIATED GENERALIZATION

is when a conditioned response is actioned by a stimuli which is entirely different from but still associated with the

MESSAGE-LEARNING APPROACH

first proposed by U.S. psychologist Carl I. Hovland (1912 - 1961) which implies that a change in attitude can be

MIXED EMOTIONS

is the process of experiencing more than one emotion at a time as a result of an event. For example,

MULTIDETERMINED BEHAVIOR

describes behaviours of any individual which are considered to be influenced by more than one variable such genetics and environmental

NEGATIVE ADAPTATION

is the gradual loss of feeling or effectiveness due to prolonged stimulation.

NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR

behaviors which can dictate a person's outlooks or emotions without the need for speech. Non-verbal behaviors can be apmother or

OBSERVER DRIFT

gradual step-by-step alterations over time in the observations and documenting of observations made by a specific viewer.

OUTCOME

noun. 1. the outcome of an experiment, remediation, interaction, or any other occurrence, for instance, a client's state following psychotherapy.