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Social adaptation
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Social adaptation The ability to live and express oneself according to society's restrictions and cultural demands.
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Social
worker An individual, usually with a university degree in social work, who provides counsel and aid to individuals with emotional and family problems.
Social alienation
The state of estrangement individuals feel in cultural settings that they view as foreign, unpredictable, or unacceptable.
Social distancing
Absence of sociable approach or response to other people that is phobic rather than depressive, catatonic, or autistic aloneness.
Social phobia
A type of anxiety disorder that causes significant anxiety and discomfort related to a fear of being embarrassed, judged, humiliated or scorned by others in social or performance situations.
Social workers
Persons performing organized work intended to advance the social conditions of a community, and especially of the disadvantaged, by providing psychological counseling, guidance, and assistance, especially in the form of social services.
Sociopath (APD)
Sociopath also known as Antisocial personality disorder (APD) involves a history of chronic antisocial behavior that begins before the age of 15 and continues into adulthood. The disorder is manifested by a pattern of irresponsible and antisocial behavior as indicated by academic failure, poor job performance, illegal activities, recklessness, and impulsive behavior. Symptoms may include dysphoria, an inability to tolerate boredom, feeling victimized, and a diminished capacity for intimacy.
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Shaping
Reinforcement of responses in the patient's repertoire that increasingly approximate sought-after behavior.
Sick role
An identity adopted by an individual as a "patient" that specifies a set of expected behaviors, usually dependent.
Signal anxiety
An ego mechanism that results in activation of defensive operations to protect the ego from being overwhelmed by an excess of excitement. The anxiety reaction that was originally experienced in a traumatic situation is reproduced in an attenuated form, allowing defenses to be mobilized before the current threat does, in fact, become overwhelming.
Simultanagnosia
Inability to comprehend more than one element of a visual scene at the same time or to integrate the parts into a whole.
Sleep terror disorder
One of the parasomnias, characterized by panic and confusion when abruptly awakening from sleep. This usually begins with a scream and is accompanied by intense anxiety. The person is often confused and disoriented after awakening. No detailed dream is recalled, and there is amnesia for the episode. Sleep terrors typically occur during the first third of the major sleep episode.
Social adaptation
Somatic delusion
A delusion whose main content pertains to the appearance or functioning of one's body.
Somatic hallucination
A hallucination involving the perception of a physical experience localized within the body (such as a feeling of electricity). A somatic hallucination is to be distinguished from physical sensations arising from an as-yet undiagnosed general medical condition, from hypochondriacal preoccupation with normal physical sensations, and from a tactile hallucination.
Spatial agnosia
Inability to recognize spatial relations; disordered spatial orientation.
Splitting
A mental mechanism in which the self or others are reviewed as all good or all bad, with failure to integrate the positive and negative qualities of self and others into cohesive images. Often the person alternately idealizes and devalues the same person.
Stereotyped movements
Repetitive, seemingly driven, and nonfunctional motor behavior (e.g., hand shaking or waving, body rocking, head banging, mouthing of objects, self-biting, picking at skin or body orifices, hitting one's own body).
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Social
worker An individual, usually with a university degree in social work, who provides counsel and aid to individuals with emotional and family problems.
Social alienation
The state of estrangement individuals feel in cultural settings that they view as foreign, unpredictable, or unacceptable.
Social distancing
Absence of sociable approach or response to other people that is phobic rather than depressive, catatonic, or autistic aloneness.
Social phobia
A type of anxiety disorder that causes significant anxiety and discomfort related to a fear of being embarrassed, judged, humiliated or scorned by others in social or performance situations.
Social workers
Persons performing organized work intended to advance the social conditions of a community, and especially of the disadvantaged, by providing psychological counseling, guidance, and assistance, especially in the form of social services.
Sociopath (APD)
Sociopath also known as Antisocial personality disorder (APD) involves a history of chronic antisocial behavior that begins before the age of 15 and continues into adulthood. The disorder is manifested by a pattern of irresponsible and antisocial behavior as indicated by academic failure, poor job performance, illegal activities, recklessness, and impulsive behavior. Symptoms may include dysphoria, an inability to tolerate boredom, feeling victimized, and a diminished capacity for intimacy.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Shaping
Reinforcement of responses in the patient's repertoire that increasingly approximate sought-after behavior.
Sick role
An identity adopted by an individual as a "patient" that specifies a set of expected behaviors, usually dependent.
Signal anxiety
An ego mechanism that results in activation of defensive operations to protect the ego from being overwhelmed by an excess of excitement. The anxiety reaction that was originally experienced in a traumatic situation is reproduced in an attenuated form, allowing defenses to be mobilized before the current threat does, in fact, become overwhelming.
Simultanagnosia
Inability to comprehend more than one element of a visual scene at the same time or to integrate the parts into a whole.
Sleep terror disorder
One of the parasomnias, characterized by panic and confusion when abruptly awakening from sleep. This usually begins with a scream and is accompanied by intense anxiety. The person is often confused and disoriented after awakening. No detailed dream is recalled, and there is amnesia for the episode. Sleep terrors typically occur during the first third of the major sleep episode.
Social adaptation
Somatic delusion
A delusion whose main content pertains to the appearance or functioning of one's body.
Somatic hallucination
A hallucination involving the perception of a physical experience localized within the body (such as a feeling of electricity). A somatic hallucination is to be distinguished from physical sensations arising from an as-yet undiagnosed general medical condition, from hypochondriacal preoccupation with normal physical sensations, and from a tactile hallucination.
Spatial agnosia
Inability to recognize spatial relations; disordered spatial orientation.
Splitting
A mental mechanism in which the self or others are reviewed as all good or all bad, with failure to integrate the positive and negative qualities of self and others into cohesive images. Often the person alternately idealizes and devalues the same person.
Stereotyped movements
Repetitive, seemingly driven, and nonfunctional motor behavior (e.g., hand shaking or waving, body rocking, head banging, mouthing of objects, self-biting, picking at skin or body orifices, hitting one's own body).
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