http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/affect-vs-effect/ Editing, Proofreading, and Writing With a Punch! Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:12:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/affect-vs-effect/#comment-14 S. Clark LSW, LPC, M.ED Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:10:23 +0000 http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/affect-vs-effect/#comment-14 Affect in mental or physical health diagnoses: the observer looks for facial gestures and subtle behaviors that would indicate how one might display feelings. For instance, if a person is talking about how upset they are that their dog died and show no visiable sadness or discomfort in face or body, they are displaying little to no affect. Humans expect to see happiness, sadness, anger or emotions that matches a person's words. Affect in mental or physical health diagnoses: the observer looks for facial gestures and subtle behaviors that would indicate how one might display feelings. For instance, if a person is talking about how upset they are that their dog died and show no visiable sadness or discomfort in face or body, they are displaying little to no affect. Humans expect to see happiness, sadness, anger or emotions that matches a person’s words.

]]> http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/affect-vs-effect/#comment-15 Shawn Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:14:53 +0000 http://shawnshearer.com/spelling-swamp/affect-vs-effect/#comment-15 Well put, from my number one trusted mental health guru. Thanks! Well put, from my number one trusted mental health guru. Thanks!

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