In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is oppositional defiant disorder. Oppositional defiant disorder in the DSM-5 Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is typically diagnosed by the early elementary school years. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), diagnosis requires at least six […]
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is kleptomania. Yes, kleptomania is actually a legitimate psychiatric condition. It wasn’t a condition I had anything more than passing familiarity with, but it came up in a conversation with a fellow blogger, so I wanted to take
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is unconditional positive regard. Unconditional positive regard was first described by humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers. It involves accepting another person without judgment simply because they are a human being who has value. It doesn’t necessarily mean accepting a person’s
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is malingering. Many of us living with mental illness spend quite a bit of time trying to pass as not mentally ill. However, sometimes when there’s sufficient incentive people will fake mental illness for secondary gain, and this is
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is self-efficacy. Essentially, self-efficacy is our belief in our ability to get shit done. Or, for a more textbook definition, there’s this quote from psychologist Alfred Bandura: “Perceived self-efficacy refers to belief in one’s agentive capabilities, that one
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is compassion-focused therapy. Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) was developed by Paul Gilbert and draws on compassion to eliminate suffering, including shame and self-criticism. The theoretical basis spans a number of fields and incorporates both Western and Eastern philosophies. Part
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is shared psychotic disorder, also known as folie à deux. Folie à deux is the more commonly recognized name for what the DSM-5 calls shared psychotic disorder. It’s a rare condition that involves shared delusions between two or more
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s terms are jealousy and envy. The terms jealousy and envy are often used synonymously, but they actually refer to two separate, although related, emotions. They’re both social emotions, in that we experience them in relation to other people. Envy
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s terms are ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic. The terms ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic come from the field of psychoanalysis, and they were coined by Sigmund Freud in 1914. Ego-syntonic ideas match up with the ego’s needs, view of the self, and personality. Ego-dystonic
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is burnout. Definition Burnout was first described in the 1970s by psychologist Herbert Freudenberger. It’s now included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon that can influence health, although it’s not
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