Terms beginning with D
Which psychology terms begin with D?
3 entries beginning with D: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Dissociation, Dual-Process Theory.
From the PsychologyOrbit knowledge base on 2 November 2026.
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
A structured treatment combining individual therapy, group skills training and between-session coaching, developed for chronically suicidal and self-harming clients and built around balancing acceptance with change.
Dissociation
A disruption in the normally integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception or sense of self, ranging from everyday absorption to the compartmentalised identity states of dissociative identity disorder.
Dual-Process Theory
A family of accounts proposing that reasoning and judgement draw on two kinds of processing: fast, automatic and intuitive, and slow, effortful and deliberative.
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