Glossary
Navigating and understanding relationships, behaviour, and psychology can feel overwhelming.
Here you will find a list of terms commonly used in relational and behavioural psychology.Ā Ā Ā
A
Accountability
Affect labelling
Ambivalence
Approachā€“avoidance conflict
Attachment styles
Secure attachment
Anxious attachment
Avoidant (dismissive) attachment
Fearful avoidant attachment /Ā Disorganised attachment
Attachment theory
Avoidant abuse
B
Behavioural confirmation
Betrayal trauma
Betrayal blindness
Bids for connection
Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Borderline personality organisation
C
Capacity for concern
Cluster B personality disorders
Codependency
Coercive control
Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
Confirmation bias
Contingent self-worth
Co-regulation
Co-dysregulation
D
DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender)
DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy)
Deactivating strategies
Dependency paradox
Depressive position
Developmental Psychology
Equifinality
Multifinality
Externalisation
Dissociation
Distress tolerance
Dual Process Model of grief
E
Earned security
Early maladaptive schemas
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)
Emotion regulation
Emotion regulation flexibility
Emotional suppression
Emotional dysregulation
Emotional flashback
Emotional immaturity
Empathy
Affective empathy
Cognitive empathy
Empathic concern
Personal distress
Enmeshment
Epistemic trust
Equifinality
Externalisation
F
False self
Fawn response
Flooding
FOG (Fear, Obligation, Guilt)
G
Gaslighting
Functional gaslighting
Intentional gaslighting
Guilt
H
Hostile attribution bias
Humiliation
Hyperactivating strategies
Hyperarousal and hypoarousal
Hypervigilance
I
Idealisation and devaluation
Intermittent reinforcement
Internal working models
Interpersonal victimhood (tendency for)
J
JADE (Justify, Argue, Defend, Explain)
M
Masking
MBT (Mentalisation-Based Therapy)
Memory reconsolidation
Mentalisation
Pretend mode
Psychic equivalence
Reflective functioning
Teleological mode
Mood-congruent memory
Moral disengagement
Moral injury
Multifinality
N
NarcissisticĀ abuse
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)
Negative reinforcement
O
Object constancy
Object relations theory
Part-object and whole-object relating
Ostracism
P
Parentification
Partner buffering
Polyvagal theory
Projection
Projective identification
Protest behaviour
Pursueā€“withdraw cycle
R
Reassurance-seeking (excessive)
Rejection sensitivity
Repetition compulsion
Rumination
Rupture and repair
S
Safe messaging guidelines
Schema modes
Schema therapy
Self-concept clarity
Self-verification
Shame
Somatic experiencing
Splitting
Stonewalling
Stress response cycle
T
Transference
Trauma bonding
Triangulation
U
Ultimate attribution error
W
Window of tolerance
