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The differences between syndrome, disorder and disease - clinical psychology

In the field of health and psychology, the use of three key concepts is very frequent: the syndrome, the disorder and the disease.These are words with great force, because at the popular level they...

Social functioning in schizophrenia: 4 instruments for evaluation - clinical psychology

Schizophrenia affects many aspects of people's lives, as it is related to a distortion of the way in which reality is perceived.One of the dimensions of quality of life that are depleted is what is...

Attention deficit or selective attention in ADHD - clinical psychology

Nowadays, cases related to Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity are frequently attended in consultation, and parents are often anxious because, years ago, they did not hear about this term as...

Hallucinations: definition, causes, and symptoms - clinical psychology

The perception is the process by which living beings capture the information from the environment in order to process it and acquire knowledge about it, being able to adapt to the situations we...

The good side of ADHD: 10 positive traits of young people with attention deficit - clinical psychology

The term "disorder" usually scares. Many people often relate it to the idea of ​​the disease, something that does not work well in the body and makes the health and the personality of the person...

The explanatory model of stress (factors, causes and effects) - clinical psychology

To this day, there is still no consensus to offer a concrete and universal definition of the concept of stress. Even so, there seems to be some agreement when defining it as the set of...

Münchhausen syndrome: causes, symptoms and treatment - clinical psychology

The baron of Münchhausen, a German baron who served Antonio Ulrico II and later enlisted in the Russian army, lends the name to this syndrome so disturbing because the baron, on returning to his...

1 in 5 CEOs are psychopaths, according to a study - clinical psychology

Many people already intuited that to be a high position in an organization it is necessary to be made of a special wood, but there are always investigations on the subject that may surprise us.There...

The Empty Chair: a therapeutic technique of Gestalt - clinical psychology

The Empty Chair technique is one of the tools of Gestalt therapy that are more striking and, in a way, spectacular: people who sit before an empty chair and address it as if there were sitting a...

Schizoaffective disorder: causes, symptoms and treatment - clinical psychology

The Schizoaffective disorder It is a controversial disorder at the theoretical level, but a clinical reality that affects 0.3% of the population. Knowing their symptoms, effects and characteristics...