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Motivational interviewing

Motivational interviewing (MI) is defined as directive, client-centered therapeutic style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence. Motivational interviewing, moreover, refers to a therapeutic approach that originated within substance abuse treatment that attempts to change a client’s motivation and prepares the client to enact changes in behavior.

Motivational interviewing (MI)

Motivational interviewing (MI) refers to a directive, client-centered therapeutic style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence.

Motivational/Intentional definition of Altruism

Motivational/Intentional definition of altruism is beneficial acts for which the actor’s primary motive or intent was to address the needs of others

Motive

Deutsch: Motiv / Español: Motivo / Português: Motivo / Français: Motif / Italiano: Motivo

Motive in psychology refers to an internal state or Condition that activates and directs behavior towards a specific goal or objective. Motives are the underlying reasons or drives that prompt individuals to take action and are essential for understanding human behavior, as they explain why people do what they do.

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Motor

Motor refers to the movement of a part of the body, or something that produces that motion or refers to motion. For example, a motor neuron is a nerve cell that conveys an impulse to a muscle causing it to contract.

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Mourning

Deutsch: Trauer / Español: Luto / Português: Luto / Français: Deuil / Italiano: Lutto

Mourning is the formal practices of an individual and a community in response to a death. The ways in which we express grief. responses to loss and grief involving efforts to cope with or manage those experiences and to learn to live with them by incorporating them into ongoing living; includes both internal or intrapsychic and external or interpsychic processes; sometimes called grief work or grieving (see above); some writers confine mourning to external or social expressions of grief and rituals used in coping with bereavement. It is one of the interpretations or theories of mourning.

In psychology, mourning refers to the process of experiencing and expressing grief following the loss of a loved one. It involves a range of emotional, cognitive, physical, and behavioral responses that individuals go through as they come to terms with their loss.

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Movement

The term "movement" can refer to physical movement or to psychological movement, or changes in thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.

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MP

MP is the abbreviations of Management psychology which refers to the branch of psychology that studies psychological regularities of management activities. The main goal of MP is to analyze psychological conditions and peculiarities of management activities in order to raise the efficiency and quality of management system.

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