PSYCH Gen Final
Terms
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- Prevalence
- the percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder
- Etiology
- the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness
- Prognosis
- Probable outcome of the illness
- Science-practitioner Gap
- gap between empirically based practices and the practices that are used to treat patients.
- Therapeutic Alliance
- the implicit cooperation between an analyst and a patient. whereby the analyst offers their interpretations and the patient tries to understand the analysts interpretations (in psychoanalysis)
- Deinstitutionalization
- transferring the treatment of mental illness from inpatient institutions to community based facilities that emphasize outpatient care
- bystander effect
- the social phenomenon in which people are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone
- Schemas
- organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object
- Schemas about people
- stereotypes