Substance Abuse Disorders

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DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP

The relationship between the drug and its efficacy to target the organ or symptom.

DYSPHORIA

Mood characterised by sadness.

ELEVATED MOOD

Heightened mood of euphoria, well-being and elation.

EMOTIONAL SECURITY

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

ENVIRONMENT

All of the external factors around us that influence us.

ETHNICITY

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

EXPERIMENTAL GROUP

The group or participants exposed to the variable.

EXTEROCEPTIVE STIMULUS

Stimulus coming from the external world. Compare interoceptive stimulus.

LITIGIOUS PARANOIA

a strand of paranoia in which individuals quarrel consistently, claim persecution (which is usually untrue) and insist that their 'rights'

MANUAL ARTS THERAPY

is the use of manual arts such as woodworking and metalworking as rehabilitative activities.

MEDICAL FAMILY THERAPY

attempts to combine the doctrines of psychotherapy and biopsychosocial systems in the context of a family situation to help other

METACOMMUNICATION

describes the communication entailing the dynamics of the process of communication itself. Talking, about talking.

MODALITY

is one experimental process or therapeutic technique.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM

is a group of professionals who work together to complement each others skills to complete a common goal.

NEGATIVE EMOTION

is usually an unpleasant or unhappy emotion which is evoked in individuals to express a negative affect towards an event

NONDIRECTIVE APPROACH

a technique in psychotherapy and counseling wherein the client controls the path of therapy by displaying their own emotions, stating

OBSERVER DRIFT

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

ORGANIZATIONAL HUMANISM

an approach to bettering organizational efficacy based upon the presumption that efficacy is improved if organizational partakers can reach a

OVERT BEHAVIOR

behavior which is graphic, that meaning, viewable sans tools or expertise.

PASTORAL COUNSELING

a type of counseling or psychotherapy wherein knowledge and standards stemming from the disciplines of theology and the behavioral sciences