| HELP | Hawaii early learning profile; Health Education Library Program; Health Emergency Loan Program; Heal... |
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| GAP | Group for Advancement of Psychiatry |
| AAGP | American Academy of General Practice; American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry |
| AAPL | American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law |
| ADAP | American Dental Assistant's Program; Assistant Director of Army Psychiatry |
| existential psychiatry | A type of therapy, based on existential philosophy, emphasizing confrontation, primarily spontaneous interaction, and feeling experiences rather than rational thinking, with less attention given to patient resistances; the therapist is involved on the same level and to the same degree as the patient. Synonym: existential psychiatry. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| forensic psychiatry | Psychiatry in its legal aspects. This includes criminology, penology, commitment of mentally ill, the psychiatrist's role in compensation cases, the problems of releasing information to the court, and of expert testimony. (12 Dec 1998) |