Substance Abuse Disorders

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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.

DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR

Any behaviour that threatens or intimidates other people.

DSM-IV-TR

The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

ECPHORY

When a past event is remembered with a trigger.

EMOTIONAL DETERIORATION

Emotional state of carelessness towards ourselves and othwr people.

EMPATHY

Understanding a person from their frame of reference so we know where they are coming them.

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.

LETHARGY

a state of low energy and de-motivated behaviour.

ACTING OUT

1. the unrestrained and improper attitudinal declaration of denied feelings that aids in reducing stress corresponding with these feelings or

ADHERENCE

noun. 1. the ableness of a person to comply with a therapeutic program, specifically those comprising drug therapy, guided by