Category: P

A paper and pencil screening tool used to determine if a person has a low enough health risk to begin a physical activity program.  

A plant based eating plan that also includes fish.  

Qualitative categories of personality within a particular domain that define the person according to the construct’s characteristics, such as Type A.  

Characteristics of an altered or meditative state in which bodily sensations are experienced as unusual or out of the ordinary.  

Subjectively experiencing that one is the target of prejudice or discrimination.  

A form of resistance to others through procrastination, excuse-making, obstructionism, or poor or destructive performance of tasks where the person engaging in the behavior does not take responsibility for his or her actions or inactions.  

The branch of the autonomic nervous system that damps down the fight-or flight response and is responsible for the body’s basal energy conservation and restoration state.  

The simplest form of active listening that involves rephrasing the communicator’s message.  

A technique that involves slowly and gently stretching the tissues around the vagina and perineum in an effort to ease the passage of an infant during childbirth and reduce the risk of tearing the skin and the need for an episiotomy.  

Exercise principle stating that a physiological system or organ that is not repeatedly subjected to normal amounts of stress will adapt by deconditioning. (Also known as use/disuse principle.)