Personality Disorders

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DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY

Flexible therapy combining principles of behaviour therapy, cognitive and mindfulness behaviours.

DISCRIMINATION TRAINING

1. process where an operant esponse is reinforced. 2. Sport. Training to be able toidentify task relevany cues.

DOGMATISM

1. Tendency to act in a certain assertive and authoritative manner in accord with a set of beliefs. 2. Personality

ECLECTIC COUNSELING

Counselling combining different techniques and findings.

EMITTED BEHAVIOR

The natural response to a circumstance not influence by external stimuli. Compare respondent behaviour.

EMOTIONAL SECURITY

Feelings of safety, confidence and freedom from apprehension. See security operations.

ENVIRONMENTAL DEPRIVATION

Lack of conditions to stimulate intellect and behavioural growth.

EXCITATION-TRANSFER THEORY

Aggressive rsponses are intensified by arousal from other stimuli not directly related to the original stimulus that started the aggression.

EXPRESSED EMOTION (EE)

Negative emotions that are expressed by family members to the person with a mental or emotional disorder.

LONDON SYNDROME

the complete resistance of hostages to comply willingly with the demands and requests of their captors.

MARGINALIZATION

the process through which the marginal groups and their members are identified as not being apart of the main group.

MENTAL ABERRATION

is used to describe a deviation from any linear or normal thinking.

MICROPSYCHOSIS

is a psychotic episode which unusually lasts an incredibly short duration, from a few minutes to a hours which typically

MOOD INDUCTION

defines any method which can be used to induce a change in an individuals mood, regardless of the direction of

NAIVE PARTICIPANT

is a participant to a study which is not aware of the experimental hypothesis and who has not participated in

NEGATIVE-STATE-RELIEF MODEL

is the theory that helping behaviour is used during times of stress and anxiety to avoid negative moods.

OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY

any psychoanalytically-rooted theory which sees the need to correspond to items as more central to personality organization and willingness than

OPERANT CONDITIONING

initially explained by B.F. Skinner, the procedure wherein behavioral alterations take place as an act of the consequences of behavior.

OVERLOAD

noun. a psychological state wherein scenarios and encounters are so mentally, perceptually, and emotionally arousing that they drain or even

PASSIVITY PHENOMENA

phenomena wherein people feel that some factor of themselves is under the management of other people. These factors can comprise