YAVIS
Adjective
Meaning
YAVIS (not comparable)
(psychotherapy) Initialism of young, attractive, verbal, intelligent, successful: a set of traits in a client said to elicit a positive bias from therapists.
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Examples
He sees YAVIS patients as being preferred by psychotherapists because they can pay for long-term treatment and are more enjoyable to interact with.
Meehl identifies these decisions as related to an implicit ideal patient who is young, attractive, verbal, intelligent, and successful ( YAVIS ).