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Psychotherapy is the treatment, by psychological means, of problems of an emotional nature in which a trained person deliberately establishes a professional relationship with the patient.

Psychotherapy is the most prevalent outpatient treatment for psychiatric disorders. Unlike other medical interventions, however, psychotherapy entails a particular kind of conversation between the therapist and the patient, and is not generally dependent on tangible technical interventions such as setting a bone or suturing a wound.

Assertive Behaviour Therapy is a procedure which trains the client in socially appropriate behaviours for self- expression of feelings, attitudes, wishes, opinions, and rights. This document further discusses about the technique and applications of assertive behaviour. It also discusses about the social skills training.

Aversion therapy is a series of different procedures applied to behaviours regarded as undesirable. These applications are based on the apparently simple principle that when a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence,its strength will diminish.

Modeling is a method used in certain cognitive-behavioral techniques of psychotherapy whereby the client learns by imitation alone, without any specific verbal direction by the therapist

Visual perception, put simply, refers to how the brain perceives and processes visual stimuli. This document further discusses the various aspects of visual perception and defects in visual perception.

Social psychology is the scientific study of how people’s thoughts feelings, beliefs, intentions and goals are constructed within a social context by the actual or imagined interactions with others. This document discusses the scientific process, functions and characteristics of social psychology. This document also discusses about cognitive dissonance theory and group theory.

Acalculia is an acquired impairment in which people have difficulty performing simple mathematical tasks, such as adding, subtracting, multiplying and even simply stating which of two numbers is larger.

Agnosia is a perceptual disorder in which sensation is preserved but the ability to recognize a stimulus or knowing it’s meaning is lost.

Alexia is a term describing a partial or complete inability to read.