Family | Let's Talk About Sex (and Paraphilic Disorders) | Ethnicity and Culture | Help! I'm in a Crisis! | Definitions and Abbrev. |
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What is "differentiated?"
This is the term Murray Bowen uses to describe a person who recognizes his realistic dependence on others, but can stay calm and clear headed enough in the face of conflict, criticism, and rejection to distinguish thinking rooted in a careful assessment o
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What is "premature ejaculation?"
According to the DSM V this dysfunction is characterized by a persistent or recurrent pattern of ejaculation occurring during partnered sexual activity within approximately 1 minute following vaginal penetration and before the individual wishes it.
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What is "machismo"?
This is the term used to define a man’s responsibility to provide for, protect, and defend his family, and a man's resistance to asking for help often found in Mexican culture.
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What is "5150?"
This set of numbers is a section code that authorizes a qualified officer or clinician to place someone under a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold.
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What is "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual?"
DSM stands for this.
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Who is Salvador Minuchin?
This person is the creator and pioneer of Structural Family Therapy.
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What are the "testicles" or "testes?"
Sperm is made in this part of the reproductive system.
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What is "Chinese"?
The imbalance of yin and yang and disharmony in the flow of chi is said to be a common explanation for mental illness and emotional problems in this culture.
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What is "two working days?"
You have this amount of time to submit a written report to Adult Protective Services after learning of suspected elder abuse.
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What is "STI's" or "Sexually Transmitted Infections?"
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD's) are now known as this.
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What is the "scapegoat?"
Of the four dysfunctional family roles, this is the name given to the child who can “do no right” and is viewed as being the reason for everything undesirable and bad. Another role is known as the Mascot.
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What is "Sexual Sadism Disorder?"
This disorder is characterized by a recurrent and intense sexual arousal from the physical or psychological suffering of another person, as manifested by fantasies, urges or behaviors.
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What is "assimilation" or "cultural assimilation"?
This term is used to describe the process in which one group takes on the cultural and other traits of a larger group.
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What is "financial?"
Taking, secreting, appropriating, or retaining real or personal property of an elder or dependent adult to a wrongful use or with intent to defraud or both, falls under this category of abuse.
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What is "Dissociative Identity Disorder"?
The original term, which formerly had the abbreviation MPD, is now known as DID, which stands for this.
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What is "super-reasonable" or "computer"?
This survival stance of Satir's family theory encapsulates a person who discounts himself and others, respects context and information only and works solely from a logical or objective perspective.
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What is "Frotteuristic Disorder?"
This disorder is characterized by the recurrent and intense sexual arousal from touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person, as manifested by fantasies, urges, or behaviors.
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What is "Baptist"?
This is the largest religious affiliation of the African American population.
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What is a "safety plan?"
In the circumstance of clients who are victim of intimate partner violence, getting a suitcase of clothes together, having cash readily available, and knowing where one might stay if a partner were to threaten or harm their partner are all collectively kn
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What is "projection?"
This is the term defined by the misattribution of a person’s undesired thoughts, feelings or impulses onto another person who does not have those thoughts, feelings or impulses.
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What is Strategic Family Therapy?
Reframing, prescribing the symptom and paradoxical interventions are techniques that belong to this type of family therapy.
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What is Sensate Focus Technique?
Nondemand caressing, caressing breasts and genitals and intercourse without orgasm are methods used in this technique, which aims to increase arousal and enjoyment while eliminating as much anxiety and performance demand as possible.
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What is "running amok?"
This term, found to have origins in the Malay and Indonesian cultures characterizes an individual who dissociates in reaction to extreme frustration and commits random acts of homicidal violence.
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What is "nothing?"
When a clinician's 20 year-old client reports that he had consensual sex with a 14 year-old partner, the clinician is mandated to do this.
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What is an "axon?"
This is the term used to describe the extended fiber of a neuron through which nerve impulses travel from the soma to the terminal buttons.
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