OUTDOOR TRAINING PROGRAM
an approach toward leadership growth and team-building wherein workers are taken to an outdoor locale, like a place of wilderness,…
PARADOXICAL DIRECTIVE
an instruction by a therapy professional toward the client to do exactly the opposite of what common sense would guide…
PAYOFF MATRIX
a table or schedule which lists the advantages and costs stemming from each potential route of action which could be…
PERSONAL DATA SHEET
a survey modeled to attain biographical information about an individual, consisting of age, gender, education, profession, interests, and health history.
PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY
the department of psychology which analyzes the philosophical dilemmas pertaining to the discipline and the philosophical presumptions which underlie its…
DECOMPENSATION
The breakdown of our defense mechanisms that result in a worsening of psychiatric symptoms.
DESTRUCTIVE OBEDIENCE
Complying with instructions that causes harm to others or leads to a negative outcome.
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
1. Process of deciding which of 2 diseases are showing overlapping systems. 2. Distinction between 2 or more similar conditions…
DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS
Operant conditioning. A stimulus that increases the probablity of a response.
EMOTIONAL DETERIORATION
Emotional state of carelessness towards ourselves and othwr people.
EPSILON ALCOHOLISM
The 5th stage of alcoholism. Where periodic binge drinking is broken up by dry periods that can last fro months.…
EVALUATION RESEARCH
Applying scientific principles, methods and theories to identify, describe, measure and predict importnat factors to develop human service delivery systems.…
EXPERT POWER
The capacity to influence others deriving from the assumption that the influencer has superior skills. See power.
ACTING OUT
1. the unrestrained and improper attitudinal declaration of denied feelings that aids in reducing stress corresponding with these feelings or…