| CSW | Certified Social Worker; current sleep walker |
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| DHSS | Department of Health and Social Security; dihydrostreptomycin sulfate |
| DSM | dextrose solution mixture; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual [of Mental Disorders]; Diploma in Socia... |
| DSSI | Duke social support index |
| DUFSS | Duke-University of North Carolina Functional Social Support [questionnaire] |
| SPSS | Statistical Package for the Social Science |
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| SASB | Structural Analysis of Social Behavior |
| WPSI | Washington Psycho-Social Seizure Inventory |
| the Act | the Social Security Act |
| social work department, hospital | Hospital department responsible for administering and providing social services to patients and their families. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| social worker | <specialist> An individual, usually with a university degree in social work, who provides counsel and aid to individuals with emotional and family problems. (05 Mar 2000) |
| social work, psychiatric | Use of all social work processes in the treatment of patients in a psychiatric or mental health setting. (12 Dec 1998) |
| united states social security administration | The social security administration administers a national program of contributory social insurance whereby employees, employers, and the self-employed pay contributions that are pooled in special trust funds. When earnings are reduced because of retirement, death, or disability, monthly benefits are paid to partially replace lost earnings. Part of the contributions go into a separate hospital insurance trust fund for workers when they become 65 to provide help with medical expenses. Other programs include the supplemental social security income program for the aged, blind, and disabled and the old age survivors and disability insurance program. Ssa became an independent agency march 31, 1995. It had previously been part of the department of health, education, and welfare, later the department of health and human services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| adlerian psychology | A theory of human behaviour emphasizing humans' social nature, strivings for mastery, and drive to overcome, by compensation, feelings of inferiority. Synonym: adlerian psychoanalysis, adlerian psychology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adolescent psychology | Field of psychology concerned with the normal and abnormal behaviour of adolescents. It includes mental processes as well as observable responses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| analytical psychology | The theory of psychopathology and the practice of psychotherapy, according to the principles of Jung, which utilises a system of psychology and psychotherapy emphasizing man's symbolic nature, and differs from freudian psychoanalysis especially in placing less significance upon instinctual (sexual) urges. Synonym: analytical psychology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| animal psychology | A branch of psychology concerned with the study of the behaviour and physiological responses of animal organisms as a means of understanding human behaviour; some synonyms include comparative psychology, experimental psychology, and physiological psychology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atomistic psychology | Any psychologic system based on the doctrine that mental processes are built up through the combination of simple elements; e.g., psychoanalysis, behaviourism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behavioural psychology | A psychologic theory developed by james b. Watson concerned with studying and measuring behaviours that are observable. (12 Dec 1998) |
| behaviouristic psychology | A branch of psychology that uses behavioural approaches such as desensitization and flooding in contrast to counseling and other psychodynamic approaches to the treatment of psychological disorders. See: behaviour therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| genetic psychology | A science dealing with the evolution of behaviour and the relation to each other of the different types of mental activity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gestalt psychology | The theory in psychology that the objects of mind come as complete forms or configurations which cannot be split into parts; e.g., a square is perceived as such rather than as four discrete lines. Origin: see gestalt (05 Mar 2000) |
| religion and psychology | The interrelationship of psychology and religion. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical psychology | The branch of psychology concerned with the application of psychologic principles to the practice of medicine; the application of clinical psychology or clinical health psychology, usually in a hospital setting. (05 Mar 2000) |