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| Painful intercourse/sexual pain disorder |
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| Genito-Pelvic Pain Disorder |
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| According to Piaget, this begins around 8 months of age and allows a child to recognize that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight |
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| . This recovery model proposes the idea of taking small steps towards reducing risky behavior |
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| A process by which unacceptable impulses are expressed as their opposites |
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| A directive style that focuses on a client’s ambivalence about changes, names it, and helps to resolve it |
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| Motivational Interviewing |
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| An emotional dependency on sexually-oriented internet and internet-related sites |
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| Cybersex Addiction/Dependence |
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| A situation in which an individual experiences an overwhelming event that upsets one’s psychological equilibrium or baseline level of functioning |
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| This served as the philosophic foundation on which the MFT field was built and emphasized tangible or knowledgeable sets of observable facts |
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| A crisis precipitated by normal stress during the course of life |
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| A crisis precipitated by a sudden traumatic even that is unexpected |
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| A defense process where an individual will displace unacceptable instincts for constructive and socially acceptable behaviors. |
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| The ability of an instrument to measure what it was designed to measure; the degree to which correct inferences can be based on the results of an instrument |
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| Intensely arousing stimuli, which may include fetishes, suffering, humiliation of oneself or one’s partner, pedophilia, and exhibitionism |
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| The postmodern school that includes models such as narrative, solution-focused, and collaborative language systems |
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| A defense process by which plausible reasons justify an action or opinion |
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| A phobia defined as an aversion to, or avoidance of, genital sexual contact with a partner |
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| A schematic diagram of the family system over three generations |
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| Telling potential research participants about all aspects of the research that might reasonably influence their decision to participate |
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| Research data that comes in the form of words, pictures, narratives, and descriptions rather than numbers |
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| A measure’s ability to yield consistent results each time it’s applied |
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| Research in the 1950s reported the schizophrenic symptoms that stem from this pattern of communication in which one person receives two seemingly contradictory messages, which may result in confusion or schizophrenic behavior |
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| Brief treatment initiated when an individual is in a crisis to help restore one’s pre-crisis biopsychosocial functioning |
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| A group based model of recovery that uses meetings, a sponsor, and a community setting |
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| .A desensitization technique where the goal is to lower anxiety levels in couples through a series of exercise by replacing anxiety with pleasure during sexual intimacy; developed by Masters and Johnson |
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| A defense process where an individual distorts reality and does not acknowledge emotion |
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| Used by Structural Family therapists as an assessment technique that helps depict the family’s organizational structure |
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| An understanding that the quantity, length, or number of items is unrelated to the arrangement or appearance of the items |
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| A defense mechanism in which affect is transferred from one object to another |
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| A maladaptive pattern of using certain drugs, alcohol, medications, and toxins despite their adverse consequences |
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| Used in research, this is an average score for a set of observations. |
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| This indicates the average spread of the scores from the mean. |
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| The understanding by a child that actions can be reversed or objects can be changed and then returned to their original state |
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| A defense process characterized by rigor and self-denial |
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| This limits the child’s understanding of cause and effect and is evidenced by magical thinking an animism; occurs during the Preoperational Stage |
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| A client creates a hierarchy of anxiety provoking situations and/or images. Each situation is then gradually faced (from least stressful to most) until the level of anxiety no longer interferes with pleasure |
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| Systematic Desensitization |
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| The cognitive process of revising existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding so that new information can be incorporated. |
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| A viral infection with over 40 types that can infect the genitals, anus, and throat |
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| A defense mechanism by which qualities of an external object are absorbed into one’s personality |
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| The inability of a child to realize that an action can be done and undone |
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| The incorporation of new information into an existing schema |
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| Used to evaluate a client’s current mental functioning |
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| Continued use, cravings, and other cognitive, behavioral, and physiological symptoms that occur through the use of certain drugs, alcohol, medications, and toxins |
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| According to Piaget, this occurs around 10 months of age and allows the child to recognize that certain events cause other events. |
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| A variable whose changes are being measured |
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| This limits a child’s ability to take the perspective of another person |
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| The internalization of outside events or characteristics of other people |
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| A commonly debated term often used to describe hypersexuality |
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| Compulsive Sexual Behavior |
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| A study done over time that observes trends in the same population |
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| A measured characteristic of a unit that is capable of taking on more than one value |
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| During the 1990’s, this period emphasized that there are no universal truths and only one point of view. |
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