Personality Disorders

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ADJUSTMENT INVENTORY

a questionnaire utilized to evaluate someone's sentiment or their level of societal adjusting in contrast with an immense and illustrative

AGGRESSION

noun. when one's actions are influenced by feelings of competition, rage, or violence, thereby producing injury to, or the deterioration

ANTISOCIAL AGGRESSION

any deliberate and proactive act of aggression that has socially destructive and undesirable consequences for another person. Compare also prosocial

ARCHETYPE

1. a perfect or typical example of something or the original model from which other models are supposed to replicate.

ATTENUATION

1. the lessening or weakening in strength, value, or quality of a stimulus or other factor, for example, a medication

AUTISTIC FANTASY

a specific type of defense mechanism in which a person deals with emotional stress by retreating into excessive daydreaming as

AWFULIZING

n. refers to an irrational and dramatic thought pattern, characterized by the tendency to overestimate the potential seriousness or negative

BEHAVIOR OBSERVATION

n. first and foremost, a record of behavior from one day to the next. This gives the observer an idea

BEHAVIORAL ENDOCRINOLOGY

n. the study of the endocrine system in relation to behavior. There is a relationship between how hormones are secreted

BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD

n. the collection and analysis of an account on a person. It may be the whole or a portion of

BURNOUT

n. a state of extreme physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion. It is characterized by a decrease in motivation and performance.

CAUSATION

n. an empirical relationship which exists between two events which can be summed up as one event (the cause) bringing

CONFIDENTIALITY

noun. A standard of professional values necessitating suppliers of mental or medical healthcare to constrain the revealing of a person's

CONTENT VALIDITY

the degree to which an analysis gauges a symbolizing example of the topic content or behavior that is being analyzed.

COPING-SKILLS TRAINING

academic interferences or remediation to accelerate or enhance someone's capacity to control a wide range of frequently awkward or worry-eliciting

COVERT BEHAVIOR

actions that aren't immediately seen and can only be deduced or reported by oneself.

CUMULATIVE RECORD

an ongoing document wherein new information is attributed. With regard to conditioning, a collective document is a graph demonstrating the

ABILITY LEVEL

the recorded level of accomplishment an individual reaches

ACTION-ORIENTED THERAPY

any sort of treatment which stresses starting and, of course, completing behaviors instead of spoken correspondence or perhaps conversation,

ADOPTION STUDY

a model of investigation that intends to ascertain an estimate of the level of genetic potential of a chosen attribute