Please Define the Following Terms or Concepts in No More

question 26

Essay

Please define the following terms or concepts in no more than two sentences, and give an example to support your definition.
A) Biphasic personality traits
B) Codependency
C) Compensation
D) Enablers
E) Focusing
F) Hardy personality
G) Helpless-hopeless personality
H) Illusion of control
I) Locus of control (internal and external)
J) Multitasking
K) Polyphasia
L) Process addiction
M) Reactionaries
N) Reconstruction
O) Self-esteem
P) Sensation seeker
Q) Substance addiction
R) Survivor personality
S) Time urgency
T) Type A personality
U) Type D personality
V) Resiliency
W) High-tech personality

• A) Biphasic personality traits
• B) Codependency
• C) Compensation
• D) Enablers
• E) Focusing
• F) Hardy personality
• G) Helpless-hopeless personality
• H) Illusion of control
• I) Locus of control (internal and external)
• J) Multitasking
• K) Polyphasia
• L) Process addiction
• M) Reactionaries
• N) Reconstruction
• O) Self-esteem
• P) Sensation seeker
• Q) Substance addiction
• R) Survivor personality
• S) Time urgency
• T) Type A personality
• U) Type D personality
• V) Resiliency
• W) High-tech personality

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Definitions:

GAF

Global Assessment of Functioning; a numeric scale (0 to 100) used by mental health clinicians and physicians to subjectively rate the social, occupational, and psychological functioning of adults.

Axis 4

Refers to the classification in previous versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) that dealt with psychosocial and environmental problems affecting diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.

DSM-IV-TR

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision; a 2000 update to the American Psychiatric Association's classification and diagnostic tool of mental disorders.

"Normality"

The condition of being normal; the state of conforming to a standard of common behavior or societal norms.