Glossary A

Advice-giving refers to the most potentially harmful of three (3) problem-focused, commonly used, skills in which the clinician offers expert opinion in hopes client will follow suggestions.

Advocacy refers to the process of supporting a person, a group, or a cause.

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Advocate refers to a person who pleads another's cause.

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Aelurophobia is a kind of phobia; an exagerrated, irrational or abnormal Fear of or Aversions to cats.

Aelurophobia is also spelled Ailurophobia.

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Aerobic exercise refers to physical activity that expends considerable energy, increases blood flow and respiration, and thereby stimulates and strengthens the heart and lungs and increases the body’s efficient use of oxygen.

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Aerobic process refers to one that uses oxygen during the activity

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Aerobic respiration refers to a metabolic pathway (means of getting energy) that requires oxygen and produces carbon dioxide.

Aerophobia refers to the fear of flying or fear of air. It is an abnormal fear of air and gases (particularly drafts)

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