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| an unconscious psychic process by which a person incorporates into his or her own psychic apparatus the characteristics of another person or object. |
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| the splitting off of a group of mental processes from the main body of consciousness, as in amnesia or certain forms of hysteria. |
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| a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are |
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| Psychiatry. a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact: a paranoid delusion. |
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| observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself. |
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| features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations. |
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| communicating or imparting the sensation of contact; arising from or due to touch. |
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| of or pertaining to the sense of smell: olfactory organs. |
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| Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality. |
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| Logic. obtained from or characterized by backward reasoning. |
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| Leads to disorganized thinking and poor reality testing |
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| Psychology . a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other. |
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| Psychology . a state of psychological equilibrium obtained when tension or a drive has been reduced or eliminated. |
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| a principle of general systems theory stating that an open system can attain a time-independent state not dependent on initial conditions and determined only by the system parameters |
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| denoting aspects of a person's thoughts, impulses, and behavior that are felt to be repugnant, distressing, unacceptable, or inconsistent with the self-conception. |
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| denoting aspects of a person's thoughts, impulses, attitudes, and behavior that are felt to be acceptable and consistent with the self-conception. |
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| To signify directly; refer to specifically |
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| Psychiatry any of a group of mental disorders characterized by a permanent disposition to behave in ways causing suffering to oneself or others |
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| Physiology Any of the various types of sensation, such as vision or hearing |
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| Structural Family therapy, strengthening boundaries around family subsystems, stresses families should be hierachical |
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| Existing or lasting only a short time; short-lived or temporary |
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| functional model of social work |
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| Emphasis on relationship, use of time and use of the agency function |
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| Psychosocial model of social work |
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| Cause and effect relationships are identified between the individual and enviroment, Ego psychology and the behavioral sciences provide important underpinning for practice, model has Freudian theory base |
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| The Problem Solving Model of Social Work |
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Work of Helen Perlman
Purpose are to free the client for investment in tasks related to the solution of the problem, involve the clietns ego in work designated to deal with the problem and mobilize inner and outer forces in the service of satisfactory role performance. |
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| Designed to solve specific psychosocial problems of individuals in a short-term, time limited form of practice |
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| In psychoanalytic theory, the division of the psyche that is conscious, most immediately controls thought and behavior, and mediates between the person and external reality |
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| an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc. |
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| Psychiatry. having an exaggerated belief in one's importance, sometimes reaching delusional proportions, and occurring as a common symptom of mental illnesses, as manic disorder. |
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| Psychoanalysis . erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development. |
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