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• self-psychology

  self-psychology is a theory in the field of psychoanalysis that centres around empathy, growth, and the healthy development of the individual.
• self-structure

  is a collection of beliefs about oneself.
• selfhood

  the dominant quality of African personal selfhood is spirituality, which defines the individual and is expressed in compassion or metaphorically as an attribute of the heart
• sensitivity

  sensitivity is the strength of the capacity to detect and discriminate stimuli. it is how strong the perception of a stimulus is in an individual.
• sequela

  a mental condition resulting from a disease, injury, therapy, or other trauma.
• shadow

  the shadow is an unconscious aspect of the personality that does not correspond with the ego ideal, leading the ego to resist
• shaping

  shaping is defined as a method of increasing a targeted behaviour through reinforcement in a process of successive approximation
• silence

  silence within counselling has been defined as the temporary absence of any overt verbal or para-verbal communication between counsellor and client within session
• social age

  this is the societal norm or expectation of behaviours associated with a certain age
• social learning theory

  social learning is a theory of learning process social behaviour which proposes that new behaviours can be acquired by observing and imitating others.
• social pragmatism

  social pragmatism refers to the social use of language and how individuals interact with others. this includes what we say, how we say it, our body language, taking turns in conversation, showing interest in another person’s comments and ideas, and even knowing when not to talk..
• sociocultural perspective

  the sociocultural perspective proposes that individuals will behave and even learn differently based on their culture or way of life
• solitary play

  solitary play, also known as independent play is the first stage of play observed in infants.
• somatic symptom disorder

  somatic symptom disorder, also known as somatoform disorder, is defined by one or more chronic physical symptoms that coincide with excessive and maladaptive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors connected to those symptoms.
• somatotrophin

  somatotropin is a recombinant human growthhormone used as replacement therapy in various conditions of growth failure, growth hormone deficiency, and weakness in children and adults.
• sperm

  sperm, also called spermatozoon, plural spermatozoa, male reproductive cell, produced by most animals.
• spiritual selfhood

  there is a spiritual selfhood, which begins at conception, or perhaps earlier in an ancestral spirit that reincarnates. it ends with the ceremony to confer a name on a newborn.
• stagnation

  stagnation is a concept introduced by psychologist Erik Erikson as part of his psychosocial development theory. it represents the seventh stage of psychosocial development, occurring during middle adulthood, typically between the ages of 40 and 65.
• standardisation

  standardization in psychology is when a test is made uniform or set to adhere to a specific standard
• statistical analysis

  statistical analysis is the collection and interpretation of data in order to uncover patterns and trends.
• statistical deviance

  statistical deviance is behaviour that does not follow the norms upheld by a majority of people in a given situation.
• stereotype

  generalized beliefs about a particular group of people.
• stereotyping

  stereotyping is a fixed, oversimplified, and often biased belief about a group of people.
• stimulus

  stimulus is any object or event that elicits a sensory or behavioral response in an organism.
• stress

  something that has significant impact in a person functioning