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videotape method

in clinical psychology and psychiatry, the use of video recordings of therapy sessions for therapeutic, research, or teaching purposes. Recorded sessions are typically reviewed as a part of clinical supervision and are useful in providing trainees with feedback. Occasionally patients are invited to view the recordings with the therapist and to recall their thoughts and emotions.

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primary insomnia

primary insomnia

in DSM–IV–TR, a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in initiating or maintaining a restorative sleep to a degree in which the severity and persistence of the sleep disturbance causes clinically significant distress, impairment in a significant area of functioning, or both. The disorder is not caused by a general medical condition or the effects of a substance and is not exclusively an aspect of another sleep disorder or mental disorder. It is termed insomnia disorder in DSM–5. See dyssomnia. Compare primary hypersomnia.