| NSSQ | Norbeck social support questionnaire |
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| PSW | primary surgical ward; positive sharp wave; psychiatric social worker |
| PSWT | psychiatric social work training |
| RPSM | residency program in social medicine |
| SAC | saccharin; sacrum; screening and acute care; Self-Assessment of Communication [scale]; short-arm cas... |
| behaviour, animal | The observable response an animal makes to any situation. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| behaviour chain | Related behaviours in a series in which each response serves as a stimulus for the next response. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behaviour disorder | General term used to denote mental illness or psychological dysfunction, specifically those mental, emotional, or behavioural subclasses for which organic correlates do not exist. See: antisocial personality disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behaviour reflex | A reflex that is gradually developed by training and association through the frequent repetition of a definite stimulus. See: conditioning. Synonym: acquired reflex, behaviour reflex, trained reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behaviour therapy | The application of modern theories of learning and conditioning in the treatment of behaviour disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paranoid behaviour | Behaviour exhibited by individuals who are overly suspicious, but without the constellation of symptoms characteristic of paranoid personality disorder or paranoid type of schizophrenia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| verbal behaviour | Includes both producing and responding to words, either written or spoken. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mass behaviour | Collective behaviour of an aggregate of individuals giving the appearance of unity of attitude, feeling, and motivation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal behaviour | The behaviour patterns associated with or characteristic of a mother. (12 Dec 1998) |
| passive-aggressive behaviour | Apparently compliant behaviour, with intrinsic obstructive or stubborn qualities, to cover deeply felt aggressive feelings that cannot be more directly expressed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paternal behaviour | The behaviour patterns associated with or characteristic of a father. (12 Dec 1998) |
| REM behaviour disorder | A disorder characterised by lack of the atonia of voluntary muscles that normally occurs in REM sleep. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cell behaviour | <cell biology> General term for activities of whole cells such as movement, adhesion and proliferation, by analogy with animal behaviour. (18 Nov 1997) |
| respondent behaviour | The behaviour in response to a specific stimulus; usually associated with classical conditioning. See: conditioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ceremonial behaviour | A series of actions, sometimes symbolic actions which may be associated with a behaviour pattern, and are often indispensable to its performance. (12 Dec 1998) |