EGO RESILIENCY
A personality with the ability to vary and adapt and express emotional impulses depending on social demands.
EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY
The tendency to have rapid emotional change. See affective liability.
ETHNOPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Where issues related to ethnic and cultural variations in using and response to psychoative agents is considered.
LIFE SPACE
a representation of the factors affecting an individuals life. These factors include environmental, biological, social and psychological factors which can…
MANIFEST GOAL
is the openly stated goal or aim of a specific piece of research. This goal will be evaluated at the…
MEDIATING BEHAVIOR
behaviours that can increase the rate or more likely increase the probability of reinforcement of the target behaviour.
MESSIAH COMPLEX
is a complex in which sufferers have a desire to redeem and save others, some sufferers have harboured the delusion…
MIXED-STANDARD SCALE
is a test of behaviour evaluation. Participants are presented with a selection of behaviours and asked to evaluate them based…
MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM
is a group of professionals who work together to complement each others skills to complete a common goal.
NEGATIVE AFFECT
is an internal feeling or emotion which is typically experienced after one has failed to complete a task or goal,…
NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
an abstract continuous probability distribution which is na act of two parameters: the expected value, p, and the variance, o.…
OUTCOME EXPECTANCIES
mental, emotional, and behavioral results which people consider to be correlated with future, or intended, actions and which are considered…
PARANOID IDEATION
cognitive processes consisting of continual suspicion and non-delusional beliefs of being persecuted, tormented, or treated in an unfair manner by…
PEER REVIEW
the assessment of scientific or academic piece, like research or written pieces turned into journals for publishing, by other skilled…
PERSONALITY DISINTEGRATION
a swift breakdown in character, cohesion, and operating, generally due to specifically distressing life scenarios.
DECOMPENSATION
The breakdown of our defense mechanisms that result in a worsening of psychiatric symptoms.