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Termination
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Termination The act of ending or concluding. In psychotherapy, termination refers to the mutual agreement between patient and therapist to bring therapy to an end. The idea of termination often occurs to both, but usually it is the therapist who introduces the subject into the session as a possibility to be considered. In psychoanalytic treatment, the patient's reactions are worked through to completion before the treatment ends. The early termination that is characteristic of focal psychotherapy and other forms of brief psychotherapy often requires more extensive work with the feelings of loss and separation.
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Termination
The act of ending or concluding. In psychotherapy, termination refers to the mutual agreement between patient and therapist to bring therapy to an end. The idea of termination often occurs to both, but usually it is the therapist who introduces the subject into the session as a possibility to be considered. In psychoanalytic treatment, the patient's reactions are worked through to completion before the treatment ends. The early termination that is characteristic of focal psychotherapy and other forms of brief psychotherapy often requires more extensive work with the feelings of loss and separation.
Focal
Limited to one specific area.
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Terminal Condition
An irreversible, incurable, and untreatable condition from which there can be no recovery, and death is likely to occur soon. Nursing and medical efforts are administered to provide comfort.
Terminal insomnia
Awakening before one's usual waking time and being unable to return to sleep.
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Thromboembolus
A clot of material that breaks free from a primary site, is transported in the bloodstream and becomes lodged and adhered at a secondary site.
Tactile hallucination
A hallucination involving the perception of being touched or of something being under one's skin. The most common tactile hallucinations are the sensation of electric shocks and formication (the sensation of something creeping or crawling on or under the skin).
Tangentiality
Replying to a question in an oblique or irrelevant way. Compare with circumstantiality.
Temperament
Constitutional predisposition to react in a particular way to stimuli.
Terminal insomnia
Awakening before one's usual waking time and being unable to return to sleep.
Termination
Therapeutic community
A term of British origin, now widely used, for a specially structured mental hospital milieu that encourages patients to function within the range of social norms.
Therapeutic window
A well-defined range of blood levels associated with optimal clinical response to antidepressant drugs, such as nortriptyline. Levels above or below that range are associated with a poor response.
Thought broadcasting
The delusion that one's thoughts are being broadcast out loud so that they can be perceived by others.
Thought insertion
The delusion that certain of one's thoughts are not one's own, but rather are inserted into one's mind.
Tic
An involuntary, sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization.
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Termination
The act of ending or concluding. In psychotherapy, termination refers to the mutual agreement between patient and therapist to bring therapy to an end. The idea of termination often occurs to both, but usually it is the therapist who introduces the subject into the session as a possibility to be considered. In psychoanalytic treatment, the patient's reactions are worked through to completion before the treatment ends. The early termination that is characteristic of focal psychotherapy and other forms of brief psychotherapy often requires more extensive work with the feelings of loss and separation.
Focal
Limited to one specific area.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Terminal Condition
An irreversible, incurable, and untreatable condition from which there can be no recovery, and death is likely to occur soon. Nursing and medical efforts are administered to provide comfort.
Terminal insomnia
Awakening before one's usual waking time and being unable to return to sleep.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Thromboembolus
A clot of material that breaks free from a primary site, is transported in the bloodstream and becomes lodged and adhered at a secondary site.
Tactile hallucination
A hallucination involving the perception of being touched or of something being under one's skin. The most common tactile hallucinations are the sensation of electric shocks and formication (the sensation of something creeping or crawling on or under the skin).
Tangentiality
Replying to a question in an oblique or irrelevant way. Compare with circumstantiality.
Temperament
Constitutional predisposition to react in a particular way to stimuli.
Terminal insomnia
Awakening before one's usual waking time and being unable to return to sleep.
Termination
Therapeutic community
A term of British origin, now widely used, for a specially structured mental hospital milieu that encourages patients to function within the range of social norms.
Therapeutic window
A well-defined range of blood levels associated with optimal clinical response to antidepressant drugs, such as nortriptyline. Levels above or below that range are associated with a poor response.
Thought broadcasting
The delusion that one's thoughts are being broadcast out loud so that they can be perceived by others.
Thought insertion
The delusion that certain of one's thoughts are not one's own, but rather are inserted into one's mind.
Tic
An involuntary, sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization.
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