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| The scientific study of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders; also abnormal or maladaptive behavior. |
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| Personal, private feelings of discomfort, unhappiness, or emotional distress. |
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| abnormality defined on the basis of an extreme score on some dimension, such as IQ or anxiety |
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| A bell shaped curve with a large number of scores in the middle, tapering to very few extremely high and low scores. |
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| Failure to conform to societal norms or the usual minimum standards for social conduct. |
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| The social situation, behavioral setting, or general circumstances in which an action takes place. |
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| Perceptions and judgements made relative to the values of one's culture |
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| behavior that makes it difficult to adapt to the environment and meet the demand of day-to-day life |
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| Disgrace, rejection, condemnation, or reproach associated with a particular social status, such as bein a convict of suffering from mental illness. |
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| A significant impairment in psychological functioning. |
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| a severe mental disorder characterized by a retreat from reality, by hallucinations and delusions, and by social withdrawl. |
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| A mental or emotional problem caused by brain diseases or injuries. |
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| Substance related disorder |
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| abuse of or dependence in a mood- or behavior-altering drug. |
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| a major disturbance in mood or emotion, such as depression or mania. |
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| disruptive feelings of fear, apprehension, or anxiety or distortions in behavior that are anxiety related. |
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| physical symptoms that mimic disease or injury for which there is no identifiable physical cause. |
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| Temporary amnesia, multiple personality, or depersonalization |
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| A Maladaptive personality pattern |
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| Sexual and gender identity disorders. |
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| Any of a wide range of difficulties with sexual identity, deviant sexual behavior, or sexual adjustment. |
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| A legal term that refers to a mental inability to manage one's affairs or to be aware if the consequences of one's actions. |
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| A person recognized by a court of law as being qualified to give expert testimony on a specific topic. |
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A person who lacks a conscience; is emotionally shallow, impulsive, and selfish; and tends to manipulate others.
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| apprehension, dread, or uneasiness similar to fear but based on an unclear threat. |
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| An emotional disturbance caused by ongoing stressors within the range of common experience |
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| Generalized Anxiety disorder |
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| The person is in a chronic state if tension and worries about work, relationships, ability, or impending disaster. |
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| Anxiety that is very general and pervasive. |
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| Panic disorder (without agoraphobia) |
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| The person is in a chronic state of anxiety and has breif moments if sudden, intense, unexpected panic. |
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| Panic disorder (with agoraphobia) |
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| The person is in a chronic state of anxiety and has breif moments of sudden panic. the person fears that these panic attacks will ccur in public places or unfamiliar situations. |
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| Agoraphobia (without Panic) |
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| The person fears that something extremely embarassing will happen if he or she leaves the house or enters unfamiliar situations. |
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| An intense, irrational fear of being observed, evaluated, embarassed, or humiliated by others in social situations. |
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| An intense, irrational fear of specific objects, activities, or situations. |
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| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) |
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| an extreme preoccupation with certain thoughts and compulsive performance of certain behavior. |
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| Recurring irrational or disturbing thoughts or mental images that a person cannot prevent |
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| An act an individual driven to repeat, often against his or her will. |
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| A significant emotional disturbance caused by stresses outside the range of normal human experience |
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| A psychological disturbance lasting up to one month following stress that would produce anxiety to anyone who experienced them. |
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| Posttraumatic stress disorder |
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| a psychological disturbance lasting more than a month following stresses in anyone that woudl experience them |
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| loss of memory (partial or complete) for important information related to personal identity |
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| sudden travel away from home, plus confusion about one's personal identity |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| the presence of two or more distinct personalities. |
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