Terms Flashcards

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Normative Need

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what a person requires in order to attain a level of well being that meets the established standards of their community/culture

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Perceived Needs

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the requirements that individuals believe they must have in order to achieve an acceptable level of well being

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Expressed Need

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is the need which they say they have and use

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Relative Needs

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the acceptable level of need compared to other people requirements

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Protective Factors

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personal, social, and institutional factors that promote personal competence and successful development that decrease the likelihood of a problem occuring

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Approach - Approach Conflict

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occurs when we must choose between two equally positive or attractive goals

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Avoidance - Avoidance Conflict

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occurs when we must choose between two equally negative or unattractive goals

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Approach - Avoidance Conflict

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occurs when a single goal has both positive and negative qualities

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Double Approach - Avoidance Conflict

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occurs when we have to choose between two goals that both have positive and negative qualities

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Paradoxical Intervention

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prescribing the very symptom the client wants to resolve

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Assessment

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gathering and assessing multidimensional information about the clients situation

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External Locus of Control

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believe their successes or failures results from external factors beyond their control ( ie. luck)

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Internal Locus of Control

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believe their successes or failure is a result of the effort and hard work they invest

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Cognitive Distortion

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ways our mind convinces us of something that isn’t really true

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Social Learning Theory

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an individual learn from observing others

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System Theory

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an individual is in constant interaction with their environment

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Reliability

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dependability, stability, consistency and predictability of results and allows users to get the same answer repeatedly

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External Validity

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whether the results can be generalized

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Internal Validity

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whether there is confidence in cause and effect

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Program Evaluation

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the systematic assessment of the outcomes of a program with the attempt of furthering its development and improvement

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Comorbidity

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when one person carries more than one diagnosis

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Double bind

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a person is confronted with two demands that are impossible to meet at the same time

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Provisional Diagnosis

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the first considered diagnosis given to a patient

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Absolute Poverty

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inadequate income and assets, a person cannot maintain a subsistence level of income

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Accommodation (Piaget)

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modification of existing cognitive thought to incorporate new knowledge

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Acculturation

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assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one

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Activities of daily living (ADLs)

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ability/inability to perform ADLs, part of person’s functional status

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Additive Empathic Responding

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emphatic responses that reach beyond the true aspects and surface feelings of a client’s message to also reflect its implied content and underlying feelings

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Advance Directive

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legal document through which an individual makes their wishes know about health care decision

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Agoraphobia

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Fear concerned that escape may be difficult/help will be unavailable

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Alcohol Withdrawal

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alcohol induced disorder, symptoms from reduction of alcohol consumption: nausea, hand tremor, anxiety, seizures, insomnia

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Alpha (level of significance)

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the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true

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Ambivalence

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contradictory emotions that occur at the same time within a person

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Anaclitic Depression

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withdrawal, depression, and development delays resulting from the loss of an attachment figure during infancy

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Analogue Studies

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studies conducted in an artificial setting (ie. lab)

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Androgyny

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having mannerisms, behaviors, appearance, and other characteristics of both genders

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Anhedonia

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inability to feel joy or express many pleasurable emotions

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Antecedent

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event of other stimulus that comes before a behavior and is thought to influence it

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Anterograde Amnesia

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a loss of memory for events and information subsequent to a trauma or other event that precipitated the amnesia. Involves the inability to form new memories

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Aphasia

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impairment in the production and/or comprehension of language

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Appropriate Affect

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a person is in touch with their emotions and can express them as they feel in response to specific emotional or situational stimuli