A combination of applied CLINICAL and SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY that attempts to foster the well-being of psychologically disturbed people by intervening in their social environment and utilising the resources of their community to help them adapt.

 This scale is comprised of the following subscales: Is a personality measure of the traits associated with the authoritatrian. It is comprised of the following subscales

* Conventionalism * Authoritarian Submission * Authoritarian Aggression * Anti-Intraception * Substitution and Stereotypy * Power and Toughness * Destructiveness and Cynicism * Projectivity * Sex

Also see, F-SCALE.

See CHUNKING.

Hormone secreted by the adrenal glands (which are situated on top of the kidneys) in times of emergency or excitement.

Adrenaline increases the heart rate, the blood supply and the sugar supply from the liver into the blood stream and alerts the muscles to impulses from the nervous system, thereby getting the organism ready for ‘FIGHT OR FLIGHT REACTION ‘ when STRESS is experienced.

Also called EPINEPHRINE.

A term used with many shades of meaning and in many different areas of PSYCHOLOGY. It is generally held to be an unpleasant emotional state resulting from STRESS or conflict and characterised by fear and apprehension. If the fear and apprehension are vague and not attached to a specific object, or if they seem excessive, the anxiety is considered NEUROTIC.

The tendency for the difference between two colours to be intensified when they are placed side by side.

See INFANTILE AMNESIA.

A state of muscular rigidity associated with severe psychological disturbance, or a hypnotic trance, where a person whose body or limbs are placed in a certain position will maintain that position for a long period of time.

Is the behaviour traits that people often attain, with an ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY disorder. There are many characteristics which include

– persistant lying or stealing 

– poor behaviour controls 

– promiscuity 

– tendancy to violate boundaries of others 

– disregard for right and wrong as well as saftey

 – Poor abusive relationships 

Any form of PSYCHOTHERAPY based on the viewpoint of COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. It regards the way in which people make sense of their experiences as crucial to their treatment and helps them identify the beliefs and expectations behind their unhappiness. It then attempts to encourage positive thought patterns in place of negative ones.