Glossary
199 core terms, written in original language. Each entry notes whether it comes from the textbook's key terms or is a contemporary addition.
Showing 11 terms.
- Malingering Textbook concept
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Intentionally producing or exaggerating symptoms for external gain.
- Managed health care Textbook concept
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US health-insurance arrangements (such as HMOs and PPOs) that control costs by managing access to and amount of services.
- Measurement-based care Contemporary update
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Routine use of valid measures to track progress and inform treatment decisions collaboratively with clients.
See: Evidence-based practice, diversity and lifelong learning, Psychotherapy: goals, stages and modes
- Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 (India) Indian context · verify
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Indian legislation establishing rights-based mental health care, including provisions on confidentiality, advance directives and presumption of severe stress after a suicide attempt. Verify provisions in the official text.
See: Ethical decision-making, confidentiality limits and risk, Ethical principles and standards
- Mental hygiene movement Textbook concept
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An early-twentieth-century movement, associated with Clifford Beers, promoting humane treatment and prevention of mental illness.
- Mental status examination (MSE) Textbook concept
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A structured description of a person's current mental functioning across domains such as appearance, mood, thought and cognition.
See: Clinical interviewing and the mental status examination
- Meta-analysis Textbook concept
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A statistical method for combining results across studies, usually as effect sizes.
- Milan approach Textbook concept
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A family systems approach using hypothesising and circular questioning to explore family beliefs and patterns.
- MMPI Textbook concept
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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a widely used objective personality and psychopathology inventory with validity scales; current edition MMPI-3.
See: Personality assessment: objective and projective methods
- Moral therapy Textbook concept
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A nineteenth-century reform approach promoting humane, structured care for people with mental illness.
- Multiple-baseline design Textbook concept
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A single-case design in which intervention is introduced at different times across behaviours, settings or people.
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