directive group psychotherapy

a type of group psychotherapy designed to help members adjust to their environment through educational tasks, group guidance, group counseling, and therapeutic recreation. [developed by Russian-born U.S. psychotherapist Samuel Richard Slavson (1890–1981)]

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February 1st 2025

varimax rotation

a statistical procedure applied within factor analysis and principal components analysis to simplify solutions and enhance interpretation of the results. It is a type of orthogonal rotation intended to make each factor have a small number of large factor loadings and a large number of zero (or small) factor loadings. Thus, following a varimax rotation, each original variable tends to be associated with a small number of factors, and each factor represents only a small number of variables. See factor rotation.