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Mental disorder |
An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts feelings and behaviors of a person preventing him or her from leading a happy healthy productive life |
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Is a mark of shame or disapproval that results in an individual becoming shunned or rejected by others |
Stigma |
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Promoting Improvement or development |
Constructive |
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A professional who diagnoses and treats emotional behavioral disorders through counseling don't prescribe medication |
A clinical psychologist |
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Is a condition in which the real or imagined fears are difficult to control |
Anxiety disorder |
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A physician who specializes in physical disorders of the brain and spinal cord |
A neurologist |
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Making something evident |
Displaying |
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An abnormal eating habits that can lead to unhealthy weight loss and death |
Eating disorder |
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Can be caused by stress feeling isolated and separated from everyone else |
Alienation |
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And ongoing dialogue between a patient and a mental health professional |
Psychotherapy |
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Use of certain medications to treat or reduce symptoms of a mental disorder |
Drug therapy |
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The condition of feeling uneasy worried about what happens |
Anxiety |
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An illness that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday life |
Mood disorder |
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Is a prolonged feeling of helplessness and sadness |
Depression |
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A physician who diagnoses and treats mental disorders through conversation and prescribe medications |
A psychiatrist |
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Mental health disorder in which a person loses contacts with reality and has delusions and hallucinations |
Schizophrenia |
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The act of intentionally taking one's life |
Suicide |
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Treatment process that focuses on changing unwanted behaviors through rewards and reinforcements |
Behavioral therapy |
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Treating a group of people that have similar problems and to meet regularly with a trained counselor |
Group therapy |
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Engaging and patterns of behavior in which the rights of others or basic social rules are violated |
Conduct disorder |
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Treatment method designed to identify and correct distorted thinking patterns that can lead to feelings and behaviors that may be troublesome self-defeating and self-destructive |
Cognitive therapy |
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Physical causes of a mental disorder include |
Brain tumors, alcohol abuse, head injury, and drug abuse |
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What are organic disorders |
Mental disorders with physical causes |
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A mental health professional who counsels patients and provides a link between the patient and the treatment center |
Psychiatric social worker |
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Physician with advance training in the treatment of mental illness and can prescribe medication |
A psychiatrist |
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Family therapy |
A treatment method that focuses on problems such as divorce that affect the family as a whole |
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Play therapy |
A treatment method that helps young patients act out problem situation using dolls and other toys |
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Three signs of suicide are |
A desire to give away belongings, lack of energy, apathy |
